Mary Wollstonecraft

"How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?"

"The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong."

"I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give."

"Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowlegde of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper; outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of proptiety, will obtain for them the protection of man; and should they be beautiful, every thing else is needless, for, at least, twenty years of their lives."

"Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual scale."