Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
- 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.
- It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
- No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
- I never wanted but your heart–that gone, you have nothing more to give.
- Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
- Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
- Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable – and life is more than a dream.
- 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.
- Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to their sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
- They may be convenient slaves, but slavery will have its constant effect, degrading the master and the abject dependent.
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and feminist. She is best known for her book “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792), in which she argued that women were not inherently inferior to men, but rather their lack of education and opportunities had kept them in a subordinate position.
Wollstonecraft grew up in a family of seven children and received a limited education. In 1784, she became a governess, which gave her the opportunity to travel and broaden her horizons. She later opened a school with her sister in London, where she met and befriended many of the leading thinkers of the day, including Thomas Paine and William Godwin.
In addition to her advocacy for women’s rights, Wollstonecraft also wrote about political philosophy, education, and religion. She had a turbulent personal life, including a failed relationship with the artist Henry Fuseli and a tumultuous marriage to the philosopher William Godwin, with whom she had a daughter, Mary Shelley, the author of “Frankenstein.”
Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38 due to complications from childbirth. Despite her short life, her writings had a profound impact on the development of feminist theory and the advancement of women’s rights.
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