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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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
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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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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
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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.
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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.
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The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.
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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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