Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
"The common attitudes of the time make every woman envy beauty, because beauty has been made the only ladder of advancement."
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."