My husband - my king.

Mary Wollstonecraft


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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.

Mary Wollstonecraft


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I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

Mary Wollstonecraft


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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

Mary Wollstonecraft


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Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

Mary Wollstonecraft


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The beginning is always today.

Mary Wollstonecraft


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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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