I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Let me reason with the supporters of this opinion, who have any knowledge of human nature, do they imagine that marriage can… — 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
“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
Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild… — 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
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Women are, therefore, to be considered either as moral beings, or so weak that they must be entirely subjected to the superior… — 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 Image
“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
