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Mary Wollstonecraft, born on April 27, 1759, and died on September 10, 1797, was an influential English writer, philosopher, and feminist. She is best known for her work 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', which challenged the gender roles and social structures of her time.

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Famous Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?”

Ifs Literature Power Educated Submit Dependence Fallibility Vindication Dependence On Others

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.”

Ifs Men Father Literature Women Wife Duty Citizens Words Of Wisdom Husband Creatures Rational Neglect Good Wife Vindication Husband And Father

Book:A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects

“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.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.”

Reason Literature Atheism Authority Rational Virtuous Vindication

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.”

Heart Dream Life Is Literature Restless Spirit

Book:Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Source: Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.”

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Book:Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Source: Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

“How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?”

Literature Rational Exertion Vindication

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.”

Love Literature Wish Sex Change Distinction Behaviour

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)

“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.”

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Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“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.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.”

World Mind Humans Long Literature Progress Atheism Slavery Ministers Human Mind Reincarnation Monarchs

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)

“Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.”

Mind Littles Feelings Care Literature Silence Objects Rounds Pursuit Employment Vain Sufficient Organs Strength Of Mind

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“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.”

Moments Lasts Literature Enjoy Women Struggle Virtue Sufficient Present Moment Despise Aggravation Propensity

Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts