Quotes by : Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and....

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family....

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

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence....

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women....

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a....

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the....

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

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being,....