Mary Wollstonecraft

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped…

Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or…

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all…

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is…

Virtue can only flourish among equals…

No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the…

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where…

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by…

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise…

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners…

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body…

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed…

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives – that…

If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of…

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings a round of little cares, or…