Fainting Quote by Tim Powers

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

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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