Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. Mary Wollstonecraft blindendenlarge Change image and share on social
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. Mary Wollstonecraft aspirebelievedangerous share on social
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. Mary Wollstonecraft animatebehaviourconfound Change image and share on social
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 attentiondegradefact Change image and share on social
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. Mary Wollstonecraft agecontestdanger Change image and share on social
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. Mary Wollstonecraft authorityobeyrational Change image and share on social
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. Mary Wollstonecraft degreeeducategreat Change image and share on social
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 churchdarkexercise share on social
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 barrenbasisbless Change image and share on social
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. Mary Wollstonecraft abolishdeadlyfree Change image and share on social
