Mary Wollstonecraft

“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.”

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

“What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.”

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

“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.”

“Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.”