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... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean. (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank. (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick? (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
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 Quotes)
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
The most perfect education... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
The birthright of man... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
... the conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
... the whole tenour of female education... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? (Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)