... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ... — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
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 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
“The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of… — 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
“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
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
“It is easier to list modes of behaviour that are required or forbidden than to set reason to work; but once the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“...meanwhile, strength of body and mind are sacrificed to libertine notions of beauty, to the desire of establishing themselves, the only way… — 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
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — 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
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
“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
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
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like 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
“A respectable old man gives the following sensible account of the method he pursued when educating his daughter. "I endeavoured to give… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The baneful consequences which flow from inattention to health during infancy, and youth, extend further than is supposed, dependence of body naturally… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“I allow that it is easier to touch the body of a saint, or to be magnetised, than to restrain our appetites… — 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 conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the… — 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
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
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Yet women, whose minds are not enlarged by cultivation, or in whom the natural selfishness of sensibility hasn’t been expanded by reflection,… — 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
“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
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
