Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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Of Women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.Mary Wollstonecraft
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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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.
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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
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
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