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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Taught from infancy that beauty is womans sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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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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strength
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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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All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day. – Franklin P. Jones

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You think intercourse is a private act its not, its a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. – Andrea Dworkin

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Women dont want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice. – Bill Cosby

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Comedy can be, especially in a writers room, really aggressive, kind of a very male-dominated room, and it would be hard for women. Its not a nurturing place. Its not like a lot of women are going to say, I cant wait to live that lifestyle and be in a writers room until 2 or 3 a.m. – Ellen DeGeneres

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