Mary Wollstonecraft

"I declare, the absurdity is gross."

"Better slip with foot than tongue."

"The most bossy person I have ever met was my teacher."

"Genius will live and flourish without training, but it does not the less reward the toil of the zealous husbandman."

"I perceive that those things which possess the power of living possess also the power of dying."

"It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization!"

"The more women are enlightened the more they are convinced that they ought not to sit idle."

"I regard these people chiefly as they may be supposed to have influenced the opinions of the civilized world."

"Profound knowledge and erudition are very desirable, but not as a substitute for good judgment."

"In the choice of a husband, a woman ultimately has much more power than is often assumed."

"The conduct and opinions of the French seem to prove that they think the term virtue as inapplicable to women as to brutes."

"Slavery is a poisonous system."

"I shall disdain to cull my words when I am speaking a disinterested truth."

"Till women are more rationally educated, the progress of human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks."

"Fortune has smiled on me; I should not be ungrateful."

"I really believe I am a little mad; it is family failing."

"What does history indisputably show? That man is a creature capable of executing the most dreadful actions."

"Let the man who has calmness and firmness resist."

"Arguments drawn from the beautiful tropez of nature are fallacious."

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness."

"If you wish to preserve your daughters from folly, you must think seriously yourself."

"Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship."

"The rights of humanity have been totally disregarded in the formation of most systems of government."

"Abuses are the food of despotism."

"I shall not trouble myself to compliment the world."

"The oppression of women is a crime against nature and against society."

"A woman perfume to herself; she is not to exist for others."

"Honest men, if they wish not to marry, may render themselves disagreeable without committing an act of injustice."

"I have chosen to be not a wife of fortune but a woman of reason."

"The soft frame of woman was made to honour and obey, but not to be enslaved by love."