A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse
Mary WollstonecraftWomen are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Mary WollstonecraftThere must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride
Mary WollstonecraftIn this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.
Mary Wollstonecraft