• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?

Mary Wollstonecraft

Related Topics

TimeWoman

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius| Next

More Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

• 

  The man who had some virtue whilst he was struggling for a crown, often becomes a voluptuous tyrant when it graces his brow.

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  ManStruggleVirtue
• 

  Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  CharacterReason
• 

  Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  FriendshipHappinessHeartMindsetPeopleWorld
• 

  The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  EducationImprovementSexWomanWriting
• 

  I never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  Break UpHeartMyselfTrue Love
• 

  She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  HerselfThinkingVoice
• 

  A little patience, and all will be over.

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  HopeOne LinerPatience
• 

  The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  HerselfWillingWoman
• 

  It is not necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition of the whole sex, leaving exceptions out of the question.

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  ExceptionMyselfNecessaryPromiseSex
• 

  The most holy band of society is friendship. It has been well said, by a shrewd satirist, “that rare as true love is, true friendship is still rarer.

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  FriendshipTrue Love
• 

  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
  IntellectualSexStrengthVirtue
• 

  The beginning is always today.

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  BeginningInspirationalOne Liner
• 

  How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  AccomplishmentBeautifulRespectWoman
• 

  Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  AffectionPotentialSelf Love
• 

  Few, 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 WOLLSTONECRAFT
  AffectionBelieveLoveManMyselfParentsPlayRelationship
• 

  But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

  MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
  PhilosophyTruthWeakness