Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
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Mary Wollstonecraft Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.
Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.
When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.
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.
The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy - for I am sad - and have cause.
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.
In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment ...
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ...
Either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the world is not yet anywhere near to being fully civilized.
Happy 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.
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?
The whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
When any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.
At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices ... rather than to root them out.
It is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to be disappointed in love, than never to love.
[...] and if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty - they will prove that they have less mind than man.
Thus do we wish as we float down the stream of life, whilst chance does more to gratify our desire for knowledge than our best-laid plans.
I begin to love this creature, and to anticipate her birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.