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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

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

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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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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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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Mary Wollstonecraft
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A man chases a woman until she catches him. – American Proverb

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Women

I prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. – Bella Abzug

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Women

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. Its like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. Id like to play strong women who are also very feminine. – Angelina Jolie

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Women

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. – Tori Amos

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Women

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The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. – Woodrow Wilson

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Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. – Simon Bolivar

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Experience

Id go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked. – Eminem

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I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life. – Major Taylor

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