"... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve……" — Mary Wollstonecraft

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— Mary Wollstonecraft

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92 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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

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