Author of quotes: Mary Wollstonecraft

If we go back to history, we find that prominent women were neither the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

My own gender, I hope, will excuse me if I treat them as sentient beings, instead of flattering their bewitching grace and looking at them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

I want women to have power not over men, but over themselves.

No man chooses evil because it is evil. He only mistakes it for happiness and goodness sought.

Having learned from infancy that beauty is women's power, the mind takes the form of the body and wandering through its gilded cage, trying to decorate your prison.