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Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.
- I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
- I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
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