Mary Hays Quotes

• Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.

  Mary Hays

  Children, Ignorance, Understanding

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• Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.

  Mary Hays

  Heart, Understanding, Mind

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• Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature in its moments of intoxication has produced, that which men have contrived with a view to forming the minds and regulating the conduct of women, is perhaps the most completely absurd.

  Mary Hays

  Men, Views, Mind

  Mary Hays (1974). “Appeal to the men of Great Britain in behalf of women”, Dissertations-G

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