When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ... — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil,… — 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
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of the physical… — 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
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage,… — 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… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In… — 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
Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual,… — 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
Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“I presume that RATIONAL men will excuse me for endeavouring to persuade them to become more masculine and respectable.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when… — 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
