The honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThe honour of the woman is not made even to depend on her will.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTSoft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste are almost synonymous with the epithets of weakness, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTVirtue flies from a house divided against itself—and a whole legion of devils take up their residence there.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTBut what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTThey may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
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 WOLLSTONECRAFTThe appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTLet 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 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 WOLLSTONECRAFTI never wanted but your heart-that gone, you have nothing more to give.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTShe would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTConsidering 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 WOLLSTONECRAFTMen of genius and talents have started out of a class, in which women have never yet been placed.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTWe must all be in love once in our lives.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTEither nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFTIt 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