Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes & Sayings

“The beginning is always today.”

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

“Virtue can only flourish among equals.”

“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”

“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.”

“Taught from 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.”

“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”

“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.”

“The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.”

“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.”