Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
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

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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Government
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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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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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[C]elebrate the exquisite beauty of every woman. – Cindy Olsen, co-owner of The Body Objective website, 1999

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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. – Gloria Steinem

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There is more difference within the sexes than between them. – Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son

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Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? – Lynn Hecht Schafran

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