Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

- 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

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

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

- 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

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