Quotes by : Mary Wollstonecraft

Gracious Creator of the whole human race! hast thou created such a being as woman, who can trace thy....

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

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

Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would....

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

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits....

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

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

The little respect paid to chastity in the male world is, I am persuaded, the grand source of many of....

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round....