Logo
Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment,

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

Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

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. – Mary Wollstonecraft

Category:
Women
Author
Mary Wollstonecraft
Read Quote

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. – Mary Wollstonecraft

Category:
Government
Author
Mary Wollstonecraft
Read Quote

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. – Mary Wollstonecraft

Category:
Age
Author
Mary Wollstonecraft
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Freedom
category

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. – Author Unknown

Category:
Freedom

But there is a corollary to freedom and thats personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. – Esther Dyson

Category:
Freedom

Responsibility is the price of freedom. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
Freedom

Watching President Obama apologize last week for Americas arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans – helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. – Rick Santorum

Category:
Freedom

Random Quotes

If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts. – Alan Cohen

Category:
God

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the times going to come when you go back down. – Miranda Lambert

Category:
Business

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. – Maureen Reagan

Category:
Equality

Todays opportunities erase yesterdays failures. – Gene Brown

Category:
Opportunity