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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

#degraded #fact #in fact #manly #men

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#eye #fix #intellectual #may #mind

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#blind obedience #end #enlarging #female #female mind

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#children #civil #epithet #grant #i

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#behaviour #confounded #distinction #earnestly #i

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#happen #i #incredibly #life #my life

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#here #i #means #people #really

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

#bear #discussion #explanation #man #parity

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#even #extends #fellow #his #homage

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

#been #before #carried #century #character