It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Women)
Contending for the rights of women, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge, for truth must be common to all, or it will be inefficacious with respect to its influence on general practice.
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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.
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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.
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The most holy bond of society is friendship.
from the book "Perugina Baci" by Baci Perugina
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.
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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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