Mary Wollstonecraft — "It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."

"I have been in love with a man of my own sex, and have found him as capricious as any of the other."

"A woman who is not a mother, is not a woman."

"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."

"Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous…"

"It is a waste of time to be always thinking of what you are to say."