Best Mary Wollstonecraft Quotations
- ...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under… Adoration
- Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to… Affection
- I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give. Give
- How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then… Broken
- It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only… Abroad
- I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both… Acquire
- Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that… Arrogant
- ... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ... Book
- The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart… All
- For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and… Addressed
- Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice… Become Wise
- But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that when the sole… Additional
- True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty. Affection
- No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Chooses
- No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Choice
- 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
- Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Contributes
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