Mary Wollstonecraft

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank, thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

The great art of pleasing is to appear pleased.

I may be an enthusiast, but I am not a visionary.

Security is the very first characteristic of happiness.

It is a happy thing for women, that there is a kind of fashion in their ideas, as well as in their dress.

The mind has been too long an orphan in the world.

I am not a slave to the fashion of the day, nor to the prejudice of any age.

The heart of man is not so much depraved by nature, as warped by custom.

It is a melancholy truth that among the higher classes, the only system of education adopted is calculated to make women more dependent and helpless.

Few have been taught to think, and fewer still to reason.

I have ever found that the women who have most power over me are those who have the least ambition.

A woman who has been taught to think will always be a formidable opponent.

It is a waste of time to be always thinking of what you are to say.

I am not afraid to own that I am a woman.

The conduct of a woman, as well as that of a man, ought to be regulated by her reason.

The greatest characters have always been the most amiable.

It is a great misfortune to be born a woman.

I have been so much accustomed to hear of the rights of men, that I begin to ask, what are the rights of women?

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

I am not fond of thinking, I like to feel.