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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

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Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

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It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

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I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

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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.

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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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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: April 27th, 1759

Died: September 10th, 1797

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