Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: April 27, 1759 - September 10, 1797
Birthday: April 27
Death: September 10
The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strenght state; usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity.
source: Mary Wollstonecraft (1997). “The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman”, p.109, Broadview Press
topic: Flower, Eye, Maturity, Flaunting, Strenght, Fastidious, Disregarded, Vindication
