Virtue can only flourish among equals.... -Mary Wollstonecraft

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Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Mary Wollstonecraft , Writer
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Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes to Explore

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly s...
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in....
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and...
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks....
Virtue can only flourish among equals....
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour....
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized....
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from loca...
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle ...
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 priso...

Equality Quotes to Explore

Equality has long been the end goal of historically oppressed populations in the United States....
Like Native Americans and African-Americans, women and LGBTQ people, Puerto Ricans should be seen as part of the same overarching struggle for equalit...
As a child of the Bronx who grew up in the projects, I was often too scared to come out of the closet, too blinded to see clearly my own value, my own...
I do believe that religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist. I'm also a constitutionalist, and we h...
It drives me batty that there isn't more equality in my business....
Equality means allowing people to achieve their full potential - for themselves and for their country....
One of the privileges of my adult life has been meeting pioneers of LGBT equality, particularly Waheed Alli, Michael Cashman and Ian McKellen....
We want Black and White to be treated equally in this country, but we cannot heal this country, we can't save race relations, we can't accomplish equa...
Equity' is only two letters away from 'equality,' after all, and who would object to that? But in those two letters is a world of difference. 'Equity'...
I'm not just equality minister I am also a Treasury secretary....