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

Mary Wollstonecraft

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Mary Wollstonecraft

... judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

Mary Wollstonecraft

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Mary Wollstonecraft

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Mary Wollstonecraft

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft