Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSolitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTMen, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTMen, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, rather than to root them out.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTRousseau exerts himself to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTErrors are often useful; but it is commonly to remedy other errors.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTAs sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSome women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTMen and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTShe would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTA little patience, and all will be over.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTI gazed around with rapture, and felt more of that spontaneous pleasure which gives credibility to our expectation of happiness than I had for a long, long time before.
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 WOLLSTONECRAFTAll 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 WOLLSTONECRAFTIndependence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTFew, 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 WOLLSTONECRAFTThe greater number of people take their opinions on trust, to avoid the trouble of exercising their own minds, and these indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than the spirit of a law, divine or human.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT