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Patriarchy2 quotes
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 · 1792Taught 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 · 1792Women2 quotes
I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792It 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 · 1792Benefits of adversity1 quote
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1787Capital punishment1 quote
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 · 1796Equality in relationships1 quote
Virtue can only flourish amongst equals. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1790Evil1 quote
No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1790Gender relations1 quote
I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792Hard work1 quote
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792Justice1 quote
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792Oppression of women1 quote
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 · 1792Parenting1 quote
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 · 1792Parents and children1 quote
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 · 1792Women's attractiveness1 quote
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 · 1792Women's rights1 quote
I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792