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Mary Wollstonecraft [1759-1797] British

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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book.

Women, Men, Society, Age, Beauty, Education, Equality, Good, Great, Happiness, Independence, Knowledge, Love, Nature, Power, Strength

Quote	Tags	Rank
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.	Education, Great, Men, Society, Women	101
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.	Good, Happiness	102
The beginning is always today.		103
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.	Love	104
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.	Knowledge, Nature	105
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.	Age	106
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?	Power, Women	107
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.	Men, Women	108
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.		109
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.		110
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.	Beauty	111
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.		112
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.		113
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.	Strength, Women	114
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.	Men, Women	115
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.	Society	116
Virtue can only flourish among equals.	Equality	117
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.		118
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.	Society	119
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.		120
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.		121
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?		122
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.	Independence	123
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?		124
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.		125
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.		126
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.		201
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.		202
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.		203
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.		204
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.		205
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.		206

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