Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation

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. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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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. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Society
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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. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. – George William Curtis

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I support women, men, anybody who is in a place thats not their strongest and who is ready to push forward. – Jennifer Aniston

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Women are the engine driving the growth in Californias economy. Women make Californias economy unique. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Womens Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer. – Calvin Klein

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