Love from its very nature must be transitory. To seek for a secret that would render it constant would be as wild a search as for the philosopherโs stone or the grand panacea: and the discovery would be equally useless, or rather pernicious to mankind. The most holy band of society is friendship.
Mary WollstonecraftFriendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.
Mary WollstonecraftSome women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.
Mary WollstonecraftStrengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.
Mary Wollstonecraft