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Danh ngôn của Mary Wollstonecraft (Sứ mệnh: 6)

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
Virtue can only flourish among equals.
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Women 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.
Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.