Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: April 27, 1759 - September 10, 1797
Birthday: April 27
Death: September 10
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.
source: Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Mary, A Fiction and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria”, p.303, Broadview Press
topic: Heart, Mind, Wish, Kinds Of Love, Susceptibility, Epithet, Vindication
