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Mary Wollstonecraft quotes about men

British Writer April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797

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...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society. Mary Wollstonecraft
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
Mary Wollstonecraft quote: "Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the..."
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft quote: "I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over..."
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft
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. Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft quote: "It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some..."
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. Mary Wollstonecraft
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. Mary Wollstonecraft
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet Mary Wollstonecraft
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. Mary Wollstonecraft

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