Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes about Love

All Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes Affection Age Atheism Character Children Diversity Education Equality Evil Feelings Feminism Giving Heart Husband Imagination Justice Literature Love quotes Mankind Morality Prejudice Pride Running School Sorrow Understanding Virtue Weakness

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Love, Real, Men

Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.72

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Love, Understanding, Inspire