Women are degraded by the propensity to... by Mary Wollstonecraft

Writer Women Freedom philosopher Present

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

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

- 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

Soul Mind May Nothing

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Beauty Mind

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

- 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

Fancy

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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