Strengthen the female mind by enlarging... by Mary Wollstonecraft | We Heart Quotes

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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Wives Women Men Will

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Popular Opinion Age

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

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Nature Man World Will

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.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Sex Fact Women Men

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

- 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

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