Mary Wollstonecraft — "It is a great misfortune to be born a woman."

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

"The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank, thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can."

"I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! All my feelings are on the tortured rack; but I will not be a fool, if I can help it."

"The being who can govern her own house, and make her husband and children happy, is more respectable than a queen."

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."