18th century Quote by Claire Tomalin

“Mary Wollstonecraft [said] 225 years ago, ‘I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Jacky, who had read and admired Mary Wollstonecraft, and despised the fashion of fluttery helplessness in women, felt, to her own annoyance, close to…

— Tim Powers

One thing I loved when I was growing up, you maybe saw one review from a magazine like 'Rolling Stone,' but now there are…

— M. Shadows

I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft:…

— Claire Tomalin

“She fixed things that were broken, and then began fixing things that weren't broken, or broke things so they could be fixed in ways…

— Jordan Stratford

“The atomic bomb which we dropped on the people of Hiroshima was first envisioned by a woman, not a man. She was, of course,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Women have crucified the Mary Wollstonecrafts, the Fanny Wrights, and the George Sands of all ages. Men mock us with the fact and say…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable…

— Laura Mullen

“...I learned the power of identity--the idea that even an uneducated woman, like myself, who hadn't read Mary Wollstonecraft or bell hooks, could be…

— Amber Dawn

“When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a…

— David Eagleman

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais…

— Erica Jong

“Whatever science has done to destroy the world, it has unquestionably saved the lives of women and their babies. Nature is not gentle with…

— Erica Jong