Mary Wollstonecraft — "The desire of being always admired is the reason why women are so often useless."
The desire of being always admired is the reason why women are so often useless.
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"The grand source of female folly and vice has ever appeared to me to arise from a mistaken estimate of sexual character."
"The desire of appearing beautiful is a very natural one, and should be encouraged, though it cannot be satisfied by art."
"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world."
"I would fain persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body."
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