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What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

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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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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

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Taught from 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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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

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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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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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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

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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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: April 27th, 1759

Died: September 10th, 1797

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