Simplicity and sincerity generally go ha... by Mary Wollstonecraft | We Heart Quotes

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Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Time

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

Struggle Present Freedom Women

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

Wrong Power Women Right Being

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?

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Life Will

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

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Blind Mind End Will

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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