Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

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  I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Strong Women, Independent

  "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

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  The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Equality, Men, Reign

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.12, Lulu.com

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  Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Mother And Daughter, Mind

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.2.

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• The beginning is always today.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Inspiring, New Beginnings, Divorce

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• Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Want

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

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Education, Thinking, People

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.202, Booklassic

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

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Rights, Perfect

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.13.

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• Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Roots, Justice

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.1.

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• Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Sex, Women, Thinking

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 4 (1792)

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• 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

  Beauty, Women, Infancy Is

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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• No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Happiness, Mistake, Men

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Book, Heart, Mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.314, Delphi Classics

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• The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mind, Appetite, Vacant

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1988). “A vindication of the rights of woman: an authoritative text, backgrounds, the Wollstonecraft debate, criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Education, Men, Degrees

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1793). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects”, p.19

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• Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Hands, Simplicity, Sincerity

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Barbara H. Solomon (1983). “A Mary Wollstonecraft reader”, Signet

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• True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Happiness, Affection, Arise

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.156, Lulu.com

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• Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Single, Blessing

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.608, Delphi Classics

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• When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Reason, Feels

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• The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Sex, Two

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.318

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• Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dark, Play, Tyrants

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.2.

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• The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Atheism, Literature, Reason

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.177, Courier Corporation

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• Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Friendship, Flames, Wind

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.71, Courier Corporation

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• Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Government, Share

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 9 (1792)

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• Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Sublime, Principles, Serious

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.90, Booklassic

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• Women becoming, consequently, weakerthan they ought to behave not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affectioneither destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mother, Sacrifice, Law

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