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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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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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