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Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings

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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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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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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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity. – Otto von Bismarck

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