Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman Quotes

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

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.

Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.

Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

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

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.