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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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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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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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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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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I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they dont have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me. – Hedy Lamarr

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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences. – Andre Maurois

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