246 Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot [...]

I then supped with my companions, with whom I was soon after to part for ever - always a most melancholly, death-like idea - a sort of separation of soul; for all the regret which follows those from whom fate separates us, seems to be something torn from ourselves.

But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy - for I am sad - and have cause.

...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society.

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

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

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.