In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.
Mary WollstonecraftWomen have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.
Mary WollstonecraftIn this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.
Mary WollstonecraftThe conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strenght state; usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity.
Mary Wollstonecraft