23 Quotes By 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 on women

Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft on women

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Mary Wollstonecraft on women