Mary Wollstonecraft — "I have a heart that is too warm to be cold."

"Consider, I entreat you, what much more forcible reasons sound philosophy can produce to expand the capacities of woman, than those which are currently urged to repress them."

"My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable …"

"Men are not more naturally brave than women, nor more naturally rational. They are only rendered so by education."

"Men have been more anxious to make women alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers."

"To be more loved than esteemed is a precarious tenure."