In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. Mary Wollstonecraft More Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft More Quotes From Mary Wollstonecraft I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft strong-women independent life The beginning is always today. Mary Wollstonecraft new-beginnings divorce inspiring Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. Mary Wollstonecraft mother-and-daughter women mind The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society. Mary Wollstonecraft reign equality men Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft want men Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. Mary Wollstonecraft roots justice men Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. Mary Wollstonecraft education people thinking 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 sex thinking Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. Mary Wollstonecraft degrees education men The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant. Mary Wollstonecraft vacant appetite mind No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft mistake happiness men Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated. Mary Wollstonecraft rights perfect men The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. Mary Wollstonecraft atheism literature reason 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. Mary Wollstonecraft infancy-is women beauty Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In a great degree, love and friendship cannot subsist in the same bosom; even when inspired by different objects they weaken or destroy each other, and for the same object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciously or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and sincere respect of friendship. Mary Wollstonecraft flames wind friendship 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 single blessing life A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous. Mary Wollstonecraft vain humble men Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth. Mary Wollstonecraft sincerity simplicity hands Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. Mary Wollstonecraft women government share Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks. Mary Wollstonecraft progress diversity justice
