Mary Wollstonecraft — "I am not afraid to own that I am a woman."

"The common source of all the follies which degrade women, is the inexperience which they are condemned to acquire, till they are mothers of families."

"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world."

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

"It is a melancholy truth; yet a truth it is, that women, as well as men, without a proper education, will ever be a prey to their prejudices."

"Ignorance is a frail base for virtue."