Natur Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes... Mary Wollstonecraft 30
Freedom Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to... Mary Wollstonecraft 34
Age In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. Mary Wollstonecraft 26
Happiness No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft 29
Age The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. Mary Wollstonecraft 35
Beauty Taught from 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... Mary Wollstonecraft 24
