Best Mary Wollstonecraft Sayings
- Virtue can only flourish among equals. Among
- The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. Any
- It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable… Dignity
- If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same… Abstract
- Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream. Dream
- The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. Been
- It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be… Active
- Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. Applied
- Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. Carried
- How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? Any
- I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. Animates
- Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my… Barren
- In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were,… Age
- The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. Afterlife
- Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? Appalled
- Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. Allowed
- Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that… Allow
- Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind,… Abolish
- Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs,… All
- What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave… Church
- My husband - my king. Husband
- It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. Degree
- But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis! Barrier
- Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth. Both
- Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. Affection
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