"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness."

Wollstonecraft, Mary · Evil · 4 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/12887/">No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7823/">Wollstonecraft, Mary</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/evil/">Evil</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"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: though a different opinion prevails in this country."

Wollstonecraft, Mary · Feminism · 1 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/14966/">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: though a different opinion prevails in this country..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7823/">Wollstonecraft, Mary</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/feminism/">Feminism</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"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."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/20715/">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..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7823/">Wollstonecraft, Mary</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/independence/">Independence</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/21062/">Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7823/">Wollstonecraft, Mary</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/innocence/">Innocence</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties."

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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3035/">Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7823/">Wollstonecraft, Mary</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/army_and_navy/">Army and Navy</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man."

Wollstonecraft, Mary · Men and Women · 0 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/26303/">Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7823/">Wollstonecraft, Mary</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/men_and_women/">Men and Women</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."

Wollstonecraft, Mary · Beauty · 0 fans >>
<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/3949/">Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison..</a></blockquote><br> -- <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7823/">Wollstonecraft, Mary</a><br> On <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/beauty/">Beauty</a> from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> Post to your blog or social network
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