The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
Mary WollstonecraftAt boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.
Mary WollstonecraftLet us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must be founded on knowledge, let us endeavour to strengthen our minds by reflection till our heads become a balance for our hearts.
Mary WollstonecraftIt is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
Mary WollstonecraftMake them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet
Mary Wollstonecraft