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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Age
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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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Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens. – Gertrude Stein

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Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. – Ambrose Bierce

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Women

Its very hard for a woman in comedy. Its hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians. – Margaret Cho

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Id much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and theyre the first to be rescued off sinking ships. – Gilda Radner

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Never miss a good chance to shut up. – Will Rogers (verification of author per The Estate of Will Rogers, CMG Worldwide

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