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Mary Wollstonecraft — Portrait after a picture by John Opie (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Mary Wollstonecraft

English writer and intellectual

1759–1797

6 quotes, most often on Women.

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3
- Beauty
- Women
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 4
- Charity
- Justice
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.
Letters Written in Sweden (1796), Letter 19
- Character
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Dedication
- Freedom
- Virtue
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream.
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
- Life & Death
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3
- Education
- Women

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