246 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

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

The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endavour by satire or instruction to improve them.

Taught from their 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.

I like to use significant words.

Still the men stand up for the dignity of man, by oppressing the women.

Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.

I presume that RATIONAL men will excuse me for endeavouring to persuade them to become more masculine and respectable.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.