“Mary Wollstonecraft [said] 225 years ago, ‘I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.” — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“Whatever science has done to destroy the world, it has unquestionably saved the lives of women and their babies. Nature is not… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft,… — Norbert Leo Butz Copy Share Image
“...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“The atomic bomb which we dropped on the people of Hiroshima was first envisioned by a woman, not a man. She was,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Jacky, who had read and admired Mary Wollstonecraft, and despised the fashion of fluttery helplessness in women, felt, to her own annoyance,… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
“While we’re defining things, let’s take a moment for feminism: “the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the political, economic,… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“...I learned the power of identity--the idea that even an uneducated woman, like myself, who hadn't read Mary Wollstonecraft or bell hooks,… — Amber Dawn Copy Share Image
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1824, came the first known strike of women factory workers; 202 women joined men in protesting a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
