Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common… — 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
“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
“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
“If they told us, that in a pre-existent state the soul was fond of dress, and brought this inclination with it into… — 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
“In the name of truth and common sense, why should not one woman acknowledge that she can take more exercise than another?… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“I once knew a weak woman of fashion, who was more than commonly proud of her delicacy and sensibility. She thought a… — 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
“Before marriage it is their business to please men; and after, with a few exceptions, they follow the same scent, with all… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“But, if strength of body be, with some show of reason, the boast of men, why are women so infatuated as to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“I now principally allude to Rousseau, for his character of Sophia is, undoubtedly, a captivating one, though it appears to me grossly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The being who discharges the duties of its station, is independent; and, speaking of women at large, their first duty is to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“I am aware, that this argument would carry me further than it may be supposed I wish to go; but I follow… — 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
