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Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes: 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.
         

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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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.



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

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



If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!






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