Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Education, Men, Degrees

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1793). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects”, p.19

• It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Justice, Diversity, Sorrow

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 4 (1792)

• 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

• I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Home, Thinking, Support

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.177, Courier Corporation

• 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

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