Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTNature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTA little patience, and all will be over.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTFew, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTMy own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSome women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSoft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTTaught from their 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 WOLLSTONECRAFTWithout the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTErrors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSimplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThose who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI shall not waste my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTModesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThey who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers ends.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTMen, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTAfter attacking the sacred majesty of Kings, I shall scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that every profession, in which great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious to morality.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT