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

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

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

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

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

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Mary Wollstonecraft

Every glance afforded colouring for the picture she was delineating on her heart.

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

All the sacred rights of humanity are violated by insisting on blind obedience.

Mary Wollstonecraft