Mary Wollstonecraft
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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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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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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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Virtue can only flourish among equals.