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Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
Page 2 of 2Mary Wollstonecraft
April 27, 1759 - September 10, 1797
Nationality: British
Category: Writer
Subcategory: British Writer
|  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? | | What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory. | | Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. | | The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. | | 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. | | 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. | | No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. | | In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. | | It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust. | | 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. |
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