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Mary Wollstonecraft11 quotes
No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1790It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792Virtue can only flourish amongst equals. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1790I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions, which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1787All 11 quotes →