A little patience, and all will be over.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTA little patience, and all will be over.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTHappy would it be for women, if they were only flattered by the men who loved them; I mean, who love the individual, not the sex.
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 WOLLSTONECRAFTBut let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy – for I am sad – and have cause.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTHow much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThose who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTNo man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTAs sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTStrengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIn short, women, in general, as well as the rich of both sexes, have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization, and missed the useful fruit.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIt is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTInto this error men have, probably, been led by viewing education in a false light; not considering it as the first step to form a being advancing gradually towards perfection; but only as a preparation for life.
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 WOLLSTONECRAFTIf then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT