Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Happiness, Good, Mistakes

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Beauty, Mind, Woman

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Power, Wrong

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Men, Sex

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Good, Women, Men

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mind, End, Blind

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Time, Lost, Revolution

The beginning is always today.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Today, Beginning

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Joy, Impossible, Alive

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mind, Nothing, May

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Men, Children

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Mary Wollstonecraft

Rational, Exertions, Obtained

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Love, Society, Sex

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Same, Rights

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Reason, Fact, Result

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Education, Women, Great

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Cannot, Reason, Authority

Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Equality, Virtue, Among

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Strength, Mind

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Love, Real, Reason

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Age, Family, Character

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Life, Live, Long

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Nature, Knowledge, Learn

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mind, Long, Human

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Life, Heart, Dream

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: April 27, 1759

Died: September 10, 1797

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