Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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