"I do not wish women to have power……" — Mary Wollstonecraft

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over… - Mary Wollstonecraft

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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92 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the…
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to…
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged…
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
The beginning is always today.
The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of…
To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who…
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being,…

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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
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