Age, Opinion, Popular 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
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream. - Mary Wollstonecraft
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
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
Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. - Mary Wollstonecraft
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Mary Wollstonecraft
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. - Jane Austen
The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890? - Stephen Sondheim
I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics. - Bob Lilly
I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight. - Lindsay Lohan
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. - Elizabeth Hardwick