“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Category: women
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“If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Category: women
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“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
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Category: knowledge
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