“ Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. ”
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“ Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. ”
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“ The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. ”
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“ Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. ”
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“ I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ”
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“ The choice is with us; let us will it, and our habitation becomes a paradise. For the will of man is omnipotent, blunting the arrows of death, soothing the bed of disease, and wiping away the tears of agony. ”
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“ The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them. ”
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“ The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them. ”
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“ Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties. ”
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“ Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ”
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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 ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
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“ Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose — a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley- Copy
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“ Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ”
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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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“ I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. ”
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“ I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie. ”
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“ I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie. ”
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“ I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. ”
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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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“ I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. ”
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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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“ No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
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“ It was the part of a woman so to refine and educate her mind, as to be the cause of good alone to him whose fate depended on her smile. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley- Copy
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“ Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ”
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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: though a different opinion prevails in this country. ”
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