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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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

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Women
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Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Loves a charity ward, you know. – Lawrence Durrell

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People dont want to see women doing things they dont think women should do. – Joan Jett

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One is not born a woman, one becomes one. – Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949

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I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men dont really care that much about womens clothes. If they like a girl, chances are theyll like her clothes. – Hedy Lamarr

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