Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes About Husband

Quotes about: Husband

• 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 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

• We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Husband, Mind, Lovers

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2014). “Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

• To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.188, Booklassic

• My husband - my king.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Kings, Husband, My Husband

• Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Husband, Intellect, Degrading

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, introduction.

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