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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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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

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Men
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Freedom
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Taught from infancy that beauty is womans sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Beauty
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There is no such thing as an ugly woman. – Vincent Van Gogh

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Men dont know much about women. We do know when theyre happy. We know when theyre crying, and we know when theyre pissed off. We just dont know in what order these are gonna come at us. – Evan Davis

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Women

Women would rather be right than reasonable. – Ogden Nash

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Women

Thank God were not like America. Everyone wants to look like theyre 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women. – Francesca Annis

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Women

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