[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex. Mary Wollstonecraft More Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft More Quotes From Mary Wollstonecraft As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so. Mary Wollstonecraft indolencesex 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 aggravationwomenstruggle Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves. Mary Wollstonecraft No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. Mary Wollstonecraft memanreallove
