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 1 Share Now -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. - Mary Wollstonecraft 2 Share Now -
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. - Mary Wollstonecraft 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. - Mary Wollstonecraft 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
