17 Quotations by Mary Wollstonecraft
- 1. Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a ...
- 2. If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of r ...
- 3. Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and in ...
- 4. It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
- 5. It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women ...
- 6. Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
- 7. No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
- 8. No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
- 9. Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the worl ...
- 10. Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young p ...
- 11. Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but ...
- 12. Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but ...
- 13. Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming ...
- 14. The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and a ...
- 15. Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge m ...
- 16. Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pa ...
- 17. Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowled ...
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