Women have seldom sufficient employment...

Women Mind Sense

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

Quote of the Day

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

- Celine Dion

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Soul May Mind 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

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

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

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

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

You might like

Women

Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

- Ayrton Senna

Voice Women Man

A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.

- Marisa Tomei

Months Women Years

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.

- James Thurber

Women

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

- Samuel Richardson

Women

I believe women still face a glass ceiling that must be shattered.

- Andrew Cuomo

Women

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

- Rudolph Valentino