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.
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.
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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.
- Virtue can only flourish among equals.