Quotes by : Mary Wollstonecraft

I aim at being useful, and sincerity will render me unaffected; for, wishing rather to persuade by the....

Friendship is a serious affection the most sublime of all affections because it is founded on principle....

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society,....

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an....

Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality....

...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfolded,....

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which....

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age,....