True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. — 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
Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous. — 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
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
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
“...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfolded, that true happiness arose from… — 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
“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
Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name, when slavery flaps her wing, ... Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Hell… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot [...]” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
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 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
“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 Image
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