Mary Wollstonecraft — "I have no other wish than to live in peace and obscurity."

"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."

"A great many women and men, too, make a point of never thinking about a subject without having taken a side first."

"Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority."

"The world cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator."

"I have always been of opinion, that the only way to make women rational creatures, and free citizens, is to allow them to pursue their own interest, and to follow the bent of their own inclinations."