For those of you keeping up with my studies, you know that I have to read Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Women" by Tuesday's class. Well, I FINALLY finished the 242-page tract at midnight last night. It's a dry read - something I would not wish on anyone. But there were some comments she made that I had to share because I find them interesting and a little but true. :-)
On Fashion - "An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery, and proves that the soul has not a strong individual character, awes simple country people into an imitation of the vices, when they canot catch the slippery graces of politeness."
On Friendship - "Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time."
On Love - "The lively heated imagination ... draws the picture of love, as it draws every other picture, with those flowing colours ... ever pursuing what it acknowledges to be a fleeting dream."
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