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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

~Mary Wollstonecraft

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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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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

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The beginning is always today.

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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

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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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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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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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Virtue can only flourish among equals.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: April 27th, 1759

Died: September 10th, 1797

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