Mary Wollstonecraft

The soul is disquieted by the body.

I am then going to dress; and, as I do not mean to go out to dinner, I shall indulge myself in the pleasure of reading a few pages of my favourite authors.

Taking a step forward is the only way to know if you can fly.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is usually indicative of the most pitiful kind of depravity.

She who can paint a portrait can also paint a landscape.

I have always thought that a love of liberty is the noblest passion of the human soul.

The grand source of misery to women is the idleness they are taught to love.

A respect for humanity must be the foundation of every virtue.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Let there be no compromise in the education of children.

The great art of life is how to turn out the bad and introduce the good.

I am persuaded that until women themselves consent to be free, they cannot be so.

The being who discharges the duties of its station is independent; and, as independence is the only situation in which virtue can exist, it is the only situation that renders us truly happy.

To be a good mother one must first be a good daughter.

The neglect of the mind in women is the cause of their weakness.

Reason and feeling should be the guides of every individual.

The love of pleasure is the root of all evil.

In the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground.

The man who has no other enjoyment of a woman but that of her person, may be called poor.