Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Husband, Father, Women

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.412

• The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Parent, Mind, Reason

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.190, Booklassic

• Women becoming, consequently, weakerthan they ought to behave not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affectioneither destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mother, Sacrifice, Law

• True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Happiness, Affection, Arise

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.156, Lulu.com

• Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Atheism, Veils

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.221, Oxford University Press

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