“ The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong. Mary Wollstonecraft
“ The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. Mary Wollstonecraft
“ 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. Mary Wollstonecraft
“ How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? Mary Wollstonecraft
“ Taught from 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 Wollstonecraft
“ 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. Mary Wollstonecraft
“ Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers. Mary Wollstonecraft
“ I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. Mary Wollstonecraft
“ Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. Mary Wollstonecraft
“ No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft
“ Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. Mary 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 Wollstonecraft
“ Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. Mary Wollstonecraft
“ 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. Mary Wollstonecraft
“ What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torment… Mary Wollstonecraft
“ Independence 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 Wollstonecraft
“ Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense… Mary Wollstonecraft
“ Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sens… Mary Wollstonecraft
