Mary Wollstonecraft — "I have a heart that is too tender to be wounded."

"Many are the causes that conspire to render women more dependent than men; and one, not the least, is the false system of education, which is adopted for their sex."

"I am not a mere woman, but a rational being."

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

"I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage."

"Contending for the rights of woman, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge…"