Psychology Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ...

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“It is easier to list modes of behaviour that are required or forbidden than to set reason to work; but once the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“...meanwhile, strength of body and mind are sacrificed to libertine notions of beauty, to the desire of establishing themselves, the only way…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“She was ashamed at feeling disappointed; and began to reflect, as an excuse to herself, on the little objects which attract attention…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“And, perhaps, in the education of both sexes, the most difficult task is so to adjust instruction as not to narrow the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Why must the female mind be tainted by coquetish arts to gratify the sensualist, and prevent love from subsiding into friendship or…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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

“Besides, the woman who strengthens her body and exercises her mind will, by managing her family and practising various virtues, become the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“The baneful consequences which flow from inattention to health during infancy, and youth, extend further than is supposed, dependence of body naturally…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“A respectable old man gives the following sensible account of the method he pursued when educating his daughter. "I endeavoured to give…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“I allow that it is easier to touch the body of a saint, or to be magnetised, than to restrain our appetites…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Noble morality! and consistent with the cautious prudence of a little soul that cannot extend its views beyond the present minute division…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“The man who can be contented to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no mind has lost in voluptuous…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“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

Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“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