Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Kings, Husband, Afterlife

  'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 3

• 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

• In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Age, Popular Song

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.29, Booklassic

• Age demands respect; youth, love.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Age, Demand, Youth

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.56, OUP Oxford

• Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Men, Age

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.18, Lulu.com

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