“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.””
Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.””
“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.””
“The beginning is always today.””
“The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.””
“[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.””
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher, widely recognized as a pioneering advocate for women's rights. Her most notable work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, published in 1792...