"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
Topic(s):
Freedom
More From Mary Wollstonecraft
- "I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour."
- "Virtue can only flourish among equals."
- "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."
More In Freedom
- "Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder."― Kinky Friedman
- "The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."― Maria Montessori
- "The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom – they are the pillars of society."― Henrik Ibsen