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.
只依靠偏見的心靈將永遠(yuǎn)不穩(wěn)定。
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.
讓女性成為理性的生物和自由的公民,她們很快就會成為好妻子;——也就是說,如果男性不忽視丈夫和父親的職責(zé)。
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
世界上缺少的是正義,而不是慈善。
美德只能在平等中繁榮。
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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