Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Into this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step… — 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
“Maria was not permitted to walk in the garden; but sometimes, from her window, she turned her eyes from the gloomy walls,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life;… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Taxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Can they supinely dream life away in the lap of pleasure, or in the languor of weariness, rather than assert their claim… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“And, perhaps, in the education of both sexes, the most difficult task is so to adjust instruction as not to narrow the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“without hope, what is to sustain life, but the fear of annihilation—the only thing of which I have ever felt a dread—I… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Most prospects in life are marred by the shuffling worldly wisdom of men, who, forgetting that they cannot serve God and mammon,… — 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
Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Noble morality! and consistent with the cautious prudence of a little soul that cannot extend its views beyond the present minute division… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The passions also, the winds of life, would be useless, if not injurious, did the substance which composes our thinking being, after… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Let me reason with the supporters of this opinion, who have any knowledge of human nature, do they imagine that marriage can… — 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
