Thinking Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

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

“How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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

“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

“If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot [...]”

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The beginning is always today.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“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

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual…

— Mary Wollstonecraft