Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

“Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.”

“Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.”

“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”

“A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.”

“You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.”

“Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.”

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