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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
British Writer
Born: Apr 27, 1759
Died: Sep 10, 1797
Being Man Me Men Will Women
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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. Mary Wollstonecraft
Obedience Mind Will Blind Obedience Blind Female Female Mind End Strengthen Enlarging
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. Mary Wollstonecraft
Justice Charity World Wanting
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. Mary Wollstonecraft
Good Women Will Men Free Become Fathers Neglect Citizens Husbands Rational Make Wives Quickly Duties Creatures
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. Mary Wollstonecraft
Woman Mind Beauty Prison Gilt Seeks Only Adorn Shapes Cage Roaming Infancy Itself Taught Body Round
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. Mary Wollstonecraft
Life Blessing Will Independence Long Live Every Virtue Considered Though Secure Were Contracting Heath Wants Grand Barren Ever Basis
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
Women Sex Men Own Manly Pay Think Systematically Degraded Superiority Trivial Fact Attentions Supporting Women Are In Fact Which Receiving
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. Mary Wollstonecraft
Government Women Ought Direct Allowed Share Instead Without Governed Any Representatives Being Them
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. Mary Wollstonecraft
World Progress Mind Will Long Ministers Abolish Freeing Deadly Itself Human Stops Which Human Mind Grasp Monarchs Whose Slavery
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. Mary Wollstonecraft
Me Joy Impossible Dust Active Alive Restless Spirit Only Sorrow Equally Exist Cease Cease To Exist Should Organized Appears
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. Mary Wollstonecraft
Good Political Evil Every Extreme Carried Must Productive
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. Mary Wollstonecraft
Time Dignity Lost Revolution Manners Local Restore Morals Unchangeable Female Effect Them Separate
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. Mary Wollstonecraft
Character Man Energy Society Daring Would Had Rendered Well Him Been Same Which Useful Organized Villain
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream. Mary Wollstonecraft
Life Heart Dream Something More Perishable Surely Than Resides
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? Mary Wollstonecraft
Own Rational Obtained How Any Being Thing

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