Quotes by : Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowlegde....

The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable....

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people....

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither....

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

Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers,....

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

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is,....