... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love;” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. — 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
“Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race,… — 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
“Love, the common passion, in which chance and sensation take place of choice and reason, is in some degree, felt by the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean. — 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
“Besides, the woman who strengthens her body and exercises her mind will, by managing her family and practising various virtues, become the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Why must the female mind be tainted by coquetish arts to gratify the sensualist, and prevent love from subsiding into friendship or… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“when two young people marry—even virtuous ones—it might also be fine if some circumstance checked their passion; if the memory of some… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot which I do… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Nature has given woman a weaker frame than man; but, to ensure her husband's affections, must a wife, who, by the exercise… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The parent who sedulously endeavors to form the heart and enlarge the understanding of his child has given that dignity to the… — 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
“To speak disrespectfully of love is, I know, high treason against sentiment and fine feelings; but I wish to speak the simple… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The common attachment and regard of a mother, nay, mere habit, will make her beloved by her children, if she does nothing… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, "that rare as true love… — 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
