“In the name of truth and common sense, why should not one woman acknowledge that she can take more exercise than another?… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Let me reason with the supporters of this opinion, who have any knowledge of human nature, do they imagine that marriage can… — 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
“...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
“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
“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
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
“Thus Milton describes our first frail mother; though when he tells us that women are formed for softness and sweet attractive grace,… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
“Probably the prevailing opinion, that woman was created for man, may have taken its rise from Moses's poetical story; yet, as very… — 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
“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
“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
“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
Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they… — 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
“If they told us, that in a pre-existent state the soul was fond of dress, and brought this inclination with it into… — 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
“[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
“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
“The common attachment and regard of a mother, nay, mere habit, will make her beloved by her children, if she does nothing… — 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
