- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
- Contracting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dignity
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020