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 Knowledge
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. -Mary Wollstonecraft Good
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. -Mary Wollstonecraft Government
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. -Mary Wollstonecraft Society
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. -Mary Wollstonecraft Freedom
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. -Mary Wollstonecraft Men
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. -Mary Wollstonecraft Family
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? -Mary Wollstonecraft Power
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. -Mary Wollstonecraft Happiness
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 Women
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 Independence
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 Men
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. -Mary Wollstonecraft Age
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. -Mary Wollstonecraft Women
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 Age
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. -Mary Wollstonecraft Women
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 Women
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 Women
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. -Mary Wollstonecraft Education
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. -Mary Wollstonecraft Women
