Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley