Best quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft on Women

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• ‟ Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

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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.

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• ‟ Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

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• ‟ Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

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• ‟ Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

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• ‟ If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

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• ‟ Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

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• ‟ Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

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• ‟ If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

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