The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
Mary WollstonecraftIt is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.
Mary WollstonecraftA king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse
Mary WollstonecraftTrue happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.
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