Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
Businessperson
Essayist
Governess
Historian
Novelist
Philosopher
Translator
Travel Writer
Writer
Mary Godwin
Mr. Cresswick
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
Vindication
Divine
Husbands
Literature
Age
Afterlife
May
Hoped
Without
Enlightened
Right
Kings
Like
Husband
Contested
Danger

More quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Image
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
Image
Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
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.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
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
Image
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Image
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
Mary Wollstonecraft