246 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

The beginning is always today.

Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.

A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ...

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.