“Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ... — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“She was ashamed at feeling disappointed; and began to reflect, as an excuse to herself, on the little objects which attract attention… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
“How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
“In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
“If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot [...]” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
“I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share
