Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is appl

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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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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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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Knowledge
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Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself. – Roseanne Barr

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I did a womens movie, and Im not a woman. I did a gay movie, and Im not gay. I learned as I went along. – Ang Lee

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What people dont understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a ranchers wife. From Alberta down to Texas Ive known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people. – Robert Duvall

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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. – P. J. ORourke

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