Taught from their infancy that beauty is... by Mary Wollstonecraft

Writer philosopher feminist

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

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Fancy

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Happiness Man

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

- 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

Women Being Government

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Women Men

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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