Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 27, 1759 - September 10, 1797

Topics

AuthorityReasonRationalBeingWho

When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

Viola Davis

LifeManParentYouGoSitting

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

Jeffrey Eugenides

LifeEndingFeelEnoughWantMean

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Stephen Hawking

LifePeopleMeAdultBeenHelping

I love the process of making a movie so much as an actor that I can only imagine I would love the process of being the director.

Tom Holland

LoveProcessI CanActorDirector

I never wanted to be on an exclusively Christian label.

Mat Kearney

ChristianNeverLabelWanted

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

Mireille Mathieu

RedYouRiseForgetBecauseFatigue

Anybody who says, 'My childhood was completely happy,' is a person who isn't remembering the truth.

Judy Blume

TruthChildhoodHappyPersonWho

As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and so you write about it.

Don Winslow

LoveTimeYouFallPlaceWant

If I had a choice as to my perfect career, I would make a couple of films a year and then concentrate on natural history.

Dominic Monaghan

HistoryYearPerfectCareerChoice

But the drawings are not created only to be sold.

Christo

OnlyCreatedSoldDrawings

Artists, whether they're Tom Cruise or John Waters or Ron Howard or Oliver Stone, you can empower them to become a better version of themselves, but you cannot change them 180 degrees to be someone they are not.

Brian Grazer

ChangeBetterSomeoneYouStone

My mother was the first African-American policewoman in Seattle - recruited, actually - and she did it for only 2 years, as she did not want to carry a gun. She worked mostly on domestic disturbances. The NAACP wanted her to do it. She did not actually have the temperament to be a cop - she was very sweet. She had a Masters in social work.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

WorkMotherSweetGunWantShe

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