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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 – 1797)


English social philosopher and pioneering advocate of women's rights; wife of William Godwin, and mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely. To render them useful and permanent, they must be the growth of each particular soil, and the gradual fruit of the ripening understanding of the nation, matured by time, not forced by an unnatural fermentation.
Wollstonecraft quotes
How can a rational being be ennobled by anything that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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