It is time to effect a revolution in fem... by Mary Wollstonecraft

Writer Time philosopher feminist

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

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Exercise Fact Being

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

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Life

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

If we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtue

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

- 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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