Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We are tomorrow's past.
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
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