Quotes Mary Wollstonecraft

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet ...

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is no...

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded...

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurpe...

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and expla...

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act accordi...

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that...

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virt...

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously ga...

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of...

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time t...

It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differ...

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, ho...

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they w...

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the op...

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it ...

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a s...

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be l...

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will b...

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishabl...

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind...

The beginning is always today....

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys a...

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings...