Women are told from their ...

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.
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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.
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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.
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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley