All Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
- A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is… Any
- Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. Employ
- Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. Begin
- Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. Calls
- Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks. Checks
- It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that… All
- It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. Charity
- The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless. Alive
- The beginning is always today. Always Today
- The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron… Been
- To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely… Best
- I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. Inspirational
- The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name… Acquirement
- I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie. Anticipate
- My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as… Alone
- I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage;… Demand
- Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that… Argument
- Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. Degree
- The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are… Arrived
- There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded… Bottom