Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Quotes

• Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man, for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

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• Necessity never makes prostitution the business of men’s lives; though numberless are the women who are thus rendered systematically vicious.

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• Liberty is the mother of virtue, and if women be, by their very constitution, slaves, and not allowed to breathe the sharp invigorating air of freedom, they must ever languish like exotics, and be reckoned beautiful flaws in nature.

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• She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears, whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.

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• Gentleness, docility, and a spaniel-like affection are, on this ground, consistently recommended as the cardinal virtues of the sex; and, disregarding the arbitrary economy of nature, one writer has declared that it is masculine for a woman to be melancholy.

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• Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavour to keep women in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

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• Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.

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• Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, which they have imbibed, they can scarcely trace how, rather than root them out.

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• I now speak of the s*x in general. Many individuals have more sense than their male relatives; and…some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

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

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• What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

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• The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

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• 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.

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• The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

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• Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

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• Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

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• My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

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• Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

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• Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

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• It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

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Birth:	27th April, 1759
Death:	10th September, 1797
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Writer, Philosopher

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