“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
“And, perhaps, in the education of both sexes, the most difficult task is so to adjust instruction as not to narrow the… — 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
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far… — 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
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The baneful consequences which flow from inattention to health during infancy, and youth, extend further than is supposed, dependence of body naturally… — 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
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
