"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
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"I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.“
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"Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."
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"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."
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"Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in."
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"Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers."
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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."
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