Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThose who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, must learn to brave censure.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTAnd if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTBut what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTAll the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTMy dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed – my dearest pleasure when free.
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 WOLLSTONECRAFTMen and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTTaxes on the very necessaries of life, enable an endless tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp before a gaping crowd, who almost worship the very parade which costs them so dear.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTA little patience, and all will be over.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe beginning is always today.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSurely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe 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 WOLLSTONECRAFTIt is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTHow much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
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 WOLLSTONECRAFT