Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

Quotes

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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.

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

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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?

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

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.

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

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