I do earnestly wish to see the distincti... by Mary Wollstonecraft | We Heart Quotes

Love Writer philosopher Sex feminist

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

Authority Being

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

- 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

Wives Women Men Will

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

Happiness Man

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

- 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

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

- Mary Wollstonecraft

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