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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Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. – 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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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. – Author Unknown

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In their 30s women really start to live… theyre not children anymore, and theyre not just mothers. – Kelly Lynch

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The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Relationships are made of talk – and talk is for girls and women. – Deborah Tannen

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