Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

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• Mary Wollstonecraft:

  The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

• Mary Wollstonecraft:

  How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

• Mary Wollstonecraft:

  In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of

• Mary Wollstonecraft:

  Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose dead

• Mary Wollstonecraft:

  What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast p

• Mary Wollstonecraft:

  Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and i

• Mary Wollstonecraft:

  It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. I

• Mary Wollstonecraft:

  I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason

• Mary Wollstonecraft:

  Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

• Mary Wollstonecraft:

  Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming