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
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
“Surely there can be but one rule of right, if morality has an eternal foundation, and whoever sacrifices virtue, strictly so called,… — 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
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
“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
“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
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
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — 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
“Besides, the woman who strengthens her body and exercises her mind will, by managing her family and practising various virtues, become the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Like the FAIR sex, the business of their lives is gallantry. They were taught to please, and they only live to please.… — 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
“The passions also, the winds of life, would be useless, if not injurious, did the substance which composes our thinking being, after… — 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
“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
“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
“A respectable old man gives the following sensible account of the method he pursued when educating his daughter. "I endeavoured to give… — 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
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
“To speak disrespectfully of love is, I know, high treason against sentiment and fine feelings; but I wish to speak the simple… — 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
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Why must the female mind be tainted by coquetish arts to gratify the sensualist, and prevent love from subsiding into friendship or… — 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
