--- title: "4 Endeavor Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft" description: "4 Endeavor quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft. Plus more from Mary Wollstonecraft and more Endeavor sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/mary-wollstonecraft-1568_blind_strengthen-the-female-mind-by-enlarging_716977.png" --- > [Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/strengthen-the-female-mind-by-enlarging-it-and-there-will-be-an-end/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/mary-wollstonecraft-1568_blind_strengthen-the-female-mind-by-enlarging_716977.png) > [I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/i-earnestly-wish-to-point-out-in-what-true-dignity-and-human/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c71/mary-wollstonecraft-1568_body_i-earnestly-wish-to-point-out-in-what-tr_724004.jpg) > [...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/men-endeavor-to-sink-us-still-lower-merely-to-render-us-alluring/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/991/mary-wollstonecraft-1568_adoration_men-endeavor-to-sink-us-still-lower-mere_1320909.jpg) > [The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/the-endeavor-to-keep-alive-any-hoary-establishment-beyond-its-natural/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/267/mary-wollstonecraft-1568_alive_the-endeavor-to-keep-alive-any-hoary-est_2028928.png) ## Other authors on Endeavor - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/thomas-jefferson/) - [Samuel Johnson 13 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/albert-einstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-baruch-spinoza-16597.jpg) Baruch Spinoza 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/baruch-spinoza/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-aung-san-suu-kyi-15696.jpg) Aung San Suu Kyi 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/aung-san-suu-kyi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-a-kempis-90210.jpg) Thomas a Kempis 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/thomas-a-kempis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-theodore-roosevelt-90083.jpg) Theodore Roosevelt 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/theodore-roosevelt/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ralph-marston-77085.jpg) Ralph Marston 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/ralph-marston/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-blaise-pascal-18353.jpg) Blaise Pascal 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/blaise-pascal/) ## More by Mary Wollstonecraft > [Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/man-preys-on-man-and-you-mourn-for-the-idle-tapestry-that-decorated-a/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [“How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/how-much-more-respectable-is-the-woman-who-earns-her-own-bread-by/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/i-love-my-man-as-my-fellow-but-his-scepter-real-or-usurped-extends/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/the-absurd-duty-too-often-inculcated-of-obeying-a-parent-only-on/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/fondness-is-a-poor-substitute-for-friendship/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/women-have-seldom-sufficient-employment-to-silence-their-feelings-a/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [“In this style, argue tyrants of every denomination, from the weak king to the weak father of a family; they are all eager to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/in-this-style-argue-tyrants-of-every-denomination-from-the-weak-king/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [ “If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot \[...\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/if-children-are-to-be-educated-to-understand-the-true-principle-of/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/if-women-be-educated-for-dependence-that-is-to-act-according-to-the/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/only-that-education-deserves-emphatically-to-be-termed-cultivation-of/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [The beginning is always today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/the-beginning-is-always-today/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [“I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/i-wish-to-show-that-elegance-is-inferior-to-virtue-that-the-first/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/perhaps-the-seeds-of-false-refinement-immorality-and-vanity-have-ever/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/make-them-free-and-they-will-quickly-become-wise-and-virtous-as-men/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) > [The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/the-birthright-of-man-is-such-a-degree-of-liberty-civil-and-religious/) [Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/mary-wollstonecraft/#itemlist", "name": "4 Endeavor Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mary Wollstonecraft" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/strengthen-the-female-mind-by-enlarging-it-and-there-will-be-an-end/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/mary-wollstonecraft-1568_blind_strengthen-the-female-mind-by-enlarging_716977.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/mary-wollstonecraft-1568_blind_strengthen-the-female-mind-by-enlarging_716977.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/602/mary-wollstonecraft-1568_blind_strengthen-the-female-mind-by-enlarging_716977.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind…” — Mary Wollstonecraft", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. 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