Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
"The more women are enlightened the more they are convinced that they ought not to sit idle."
More from Mary Wollstonecraft
"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves."
"A woman who has only been taught to please will soon find her charms fade and herself forgotten."
"The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex."
"I am not fond of the idea of confining women to their families perpetually."