wollstonecraft Quotes

“In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.”

“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.”

“No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

“Virtue can only flourish among equals.”

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”

“Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.”

“Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.”