Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft 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 WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Modesty, temperance, and self-denial, are the sober offspring of reason.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft They are the men of fancy, the favourites of the sex, who outwardly respect, and inwardly despise the weak creatures whom they thus sport with.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft It may be impossible to convince women that the illegitimate power which they obtain by degrading themselves is a curse.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Pope’s summary of their character to be just, that every woman is at heart a rake.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Rousseau 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 WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft As sound politics diffuse liberty, mankind, including woman, will become more wise and virtuous.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft And if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty – they will prove that they have less mind than man.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept in ignorance under the specious name of innocence?
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