Mary Wollstonecraft — "I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves."

"Till women are more rationally educated, the progress of human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive a continual check."

"The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to att…"

"I am not afraid of the world, nor of its censures."

"I have a soul that pants for liberty."

"The desire of appearing beautiful is a very natural one, and should be encouraged, though it cannot be satisfied by art."