No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
From Mary Wollstonecraft
The beginning is always today.
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
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?
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
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.
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