The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart.
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.
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists.
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart.
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists.
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.
The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
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 fathers.
让女性成为理性的生物和自由的公民，她们很快就会成为好妻子；——也就是说，如果男性不忽视丈夫和父亲的职责。
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
世界上缺少的是正义，而不是慈善。
美德只能在平等中繁荣。
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue.
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