Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
Mary WollstonecraftIn the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.
Mary WollstonecraftAt boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.
Mary WollstonecraftWomen deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they may well glory in their illicit sway, for, like Turkish bashaws, they have more real power than their masters: but virtue is sacrificed to temporary gratifications, and the respectability of life to the triumph of an hour.
Mary Wollstonecraft