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I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. -

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. – Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

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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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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Women
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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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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry. – Joan Baez, “Sexism Seen but not Heard,” Los Angeles Times, 1974

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Give a woman a job and she grows balls. – Jack Gelber

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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. – Timothy Leary

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Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. – Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler

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Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye diet. – Lewis C. Henry

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