We must all be in love once in our lives.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTNature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.
More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
-
-
They 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 WOLLSTONECRAFT -
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
My 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 WOLLSTONECRAFT -
But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
Happy 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 WOLLSTONECRAFT -
Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
All power inebriates weak man; and its abuse proves that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT -
I do not wish them women to have power over men; but over themselves.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT