Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an English feminist. She was one of the earliest and most influential European women's rights activists.

Wisdom & Quotes

• When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she does not share it with him.

- A Vindication of the Rights of Women

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

- A Vindication of the Right of Women

• When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

- Of the Pernicious Effects which arise from the unnatural distinctions established in society, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

• Elegance is inferior to virtue.

- A Vindication of the Rights of Women

• When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.
• Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

- The French Revolution

Robert Burns