Exercise Fact Being In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason. - Mary Wollstonecraft
Progress Mind World Will Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. - 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
Blind Mind End Will Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience. - 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
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
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. - Julien Benda
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. - Dean Inge