Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, "that rare as true love… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Obedience, unconditional obedience, is the catch-word of tyrants of every description, and to render 'assurance doubly sure,' one kind of despotism supports… — 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… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Not on the score of modesty, but decency; for the care which some modest women take, making at the same time a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common… — 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… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Rousseau declares, that a woman should never, for a moment feel herself independent, that she should be governed by fear to exercise… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Asserting the rights which women in common with men ought to contend for, I have not attempted to extenuate their faults; but… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Love, the common passion, in which chance and sensation take place of choice and reason, is in some degree, felt by the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Most prospects in life are marred by the shuffling worldly wisdom of men, who, forgetting that they cannot serve God and mammon,… — 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
“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
“I now principally allude to Rousseau, for his character of Sophia is, undoubtedly, a captivating one, though it appears to me grossly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The being who discharges the duties of its station, is independent; and, speaking of women at large, their first duty is to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“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
“I once knew a weak woman of fashion, who was more than commonly proud of her delicacy and sensibility. She thought a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Before marriage it is their business to please men; and after, with a few exceptions, they follow the same scent, with all… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“But, if strength of body be, with some show of reason, the boast of men, why are women so infatuated as to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“...meanwhile, strength of body and mind are sacrificed to libertine notions of beauty, to the desire of establishing themselves, the only way… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Let woman share the rights, and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated, or… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Can they supinely dream life away in the lap of pleasure, or in the languor of weariness, rather than assert their claim… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Why are girls to be told that they resemble angels; but to sink them below women? Or, that a gentle, innocent female… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“If there is but one criterion of morals, but one archetype for man, women appear to be suspended by destiny, according to… — 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
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