Famous Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

  • How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? – Mary Wollstonecraft

    How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?– Mary Wollstonecraft

  • Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions. – Mary Wollstonecraft

    Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.– Mary Wollstonecraft

  • It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world! – Mary Wollstonecraft

    It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!– Mary Wollstonecraft

  • The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong. – Mary Wollstonecraft

    The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.– Mary Wollstonecraft

  • I never wanted but your heart–that gone, you have nothing more to give. – Mary Wollstonecraft

    I never wanted but your heart–that gone, you have nothing more to give.– Mary Wollstonecraft

  • Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think. – Mary Wollstonecraft

    Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.– Mary Wollstonecraft

  • Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity. – Mary Wollstonecraft

    Nature in everything demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.– Mary Wollstonecraft

  • It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. – Mary Wollstonecraft

    It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.– Mary Wollstonecraft