For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind … - Mary Wollstonecraft

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Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

Mary Wollstonecraft

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

Enlargement, Given, Imagination, Leaving, Reading, Thinking

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. . . we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

Success, Excellence, Sake, Unless, Love

To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.

Fellowship, Marriage, Private, Same, School, Sex

But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (. . . ) Is it then surprising that when the sole ambition of woman centres in beauty, and interest gives vanity additional force, perpetual rivalships should ensue? They are all running the same race, and would rise above the virtue of morals, if they did not view each other with a suspicious and even envious eye.

Ambition, Centres, Envious, Eye, Force, Running

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

Marriage, Men, Thinking, Seduces, Termed

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.

Distorted, Inspire, Love, Nobler, Ought, Understanding