Women have seldom sufficient employment... by Mary Wollstonecraft

Sense Women Writer Mind philosopher

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by 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

Struggle Present Women Freedom

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 Women Right Power 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

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Women Men

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

- 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

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