Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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More quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- 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.
- Virtue can only flourish among equals.