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 WollstonecraftWomen ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
Mary WollstonecraftFriendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.
Mary WollstonecraftThe graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.
Mary Wollstonecraft