Age Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1824, came the first known strike of women factory workers; 202 women joined men in protesting a wage cut…

— Howard Zinn

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

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

“While we’re defining things, let’s take a moment for feminism: “the advocacy of women’s rights on the basis of the political, economic, and social…

— 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

“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

“...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed, a gigantic…

— Emma Goldman

I'm a pretty avid reader, but I missed feminism in college. I did take an intro course where I read Mary Wollstonecraft, but I…

— Norbert Leo Butz

When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.'…

— Claire Tomalin

“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

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

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. GEORGE SAND

— Move-on07