Best Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
- We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us. Cannot Without
- A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind Bondage
- Women becoming, consequently, weakerthan they ought to behave not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental… Becoming
- A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse Authority
- I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning… Attained
- The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous. Beauty
- It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature. Appears
- 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 defections… Artificial
- Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle… Aggravation
- Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves. Inspirational
- Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth. Bashfulness
- Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must… Account
- When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly. Deeply
- The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no… Barriers
- And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious… Abilities
- Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but… All
- Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.… Activity
- When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him. Despise
- When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick? Cut
- When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage. Handed
- Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn… Adorn
- Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. Blind
- If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power,… According
- Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of… Become Good
- Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly… Attention
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