Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Charity
Justice
World
Vindication
Wanting
Diversity
More quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.
Mary Wollstonecraft
When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.
Mary Wollstonecraft
As a sex, women are habitually indolent and every thing tends to make them so.
Mary Wollstonecraft
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.
Mary Wollstonecraft
...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
When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
Mary Wollstonecraft
The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Mary Wollstonecraft
I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft
... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant and the remainder vain and mean.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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
Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
Mary Wollstonecraft
My husband - my king.
Mary Wollstonecraft
