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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Atheism, Literature, Reason
Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.177, Courier Corporation

Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Men, Atheism, Veils
Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.221, Oxford University Press

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Exercise, Atheism, Farce
Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.37

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

Mary Wollstonecraft
Numbers, Atheism, Leeches
Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

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