I like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI like to see your eyes praise me and, during such recitals, there are interruptions, not ungrateful to the heart, when the honey that drops from the lips is not merely words.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSurely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSome women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTParental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIt is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTFriendship 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 WOLLSTONECRAFTTrue sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTPope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
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 WOLLSTONECRAFTIt may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThey may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTLike the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty.
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 WOLLSTONECRAFTMen, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI have sighed when obliged to confess that either Nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization which has hitherto taken place in the world has been very partial.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT