Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote / Image

Quote image editor Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Back to previous page

“Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Quote 1080 x 1350 Instagram portrait
More
Platforms
Pure ratios
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley