Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraftwas an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 April 1759
Mary Wollstonecraft quotes about
You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
The beginning is always today.
We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.
...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.
I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.
A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind