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Person·Mary Wollstonecraft✕clear

Political literature

No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Men · 1790

★ 7.1

Political literature · Feminist literature

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

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 4.7

Political literature

Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Men · 1790

★ 3.9

Political literature · Feminist literature

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

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 3.9

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters · 1787

★ 3.7

Political literature · Feminist literature

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

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 3.7

Political literature · Feminist literature

Taught from their 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

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 3.7

Political literature · Feminist literature

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 2.9

Political literature · Feminist literature

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed, because they will be obeyed, because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a Divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 2.9

Political literature · Feminist literature

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion, that they were created rather to feel than reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · 1792

★ 2.0

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because, in committing it, the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

Mary Wollstonecraft

1796

★ 1.9