British - Writer | April 27, 1759 - September 10, 1797
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
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In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
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What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
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I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?
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