Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Character, Views

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

• The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Fate, Destiny

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.86, Booklassic

• The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Courage, Character, Men

  Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark Letter 19 (1796)

• 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

• An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Fashion, Strong, Character

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.16, Hackett Publishing

• Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Character, Men, Mould

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2014). “Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”, p.217, Restless Books

• 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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