No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary WollstonecraftThe flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.
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 WollstonecraftStrengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.
Mary WollstonecraftTrue happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.
Mary Wollstonecraft...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society.
Mary Wollstonecraft