Quotes About Mary Wollstonecraft

I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

I was guiltless, but I had indeed drawn down a horrible curse upon my head, as mortal as that of crime.

I shuddered when I thought of the possible consequences of my consent; but I felt that there was some justice in his argument.

shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price perhaps of the existence of the whole human race.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.