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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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If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? – Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. – Fay Weldon

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No one should have to dance backward all of their lives. – Jill Ruckelshaus

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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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