{"author":"Mary Wollstonecraft","author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft","total_quotes":44,"quotes":[{"text":"Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft","tags":["freedom","struggle","enjoy "],"id":2987,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft"},{"text":"Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft","tags":["affection","childhood","humanity","love","society","solidarity","upbringing"],"id":8321,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft"},{"text":"Taught from 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.","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft","tags":["woman","mind","prison "],"id":35579,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft"},{"text":"Virtue can only flourish among equals.","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft","tags":["virtue","only","flourish "],"id":59573,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft"},{"text":"Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft","tags":["children","men","weakness "],"id":64641,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft"},{"text":"I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft","tags":["heartbreak"],"id":93649,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft"},{"text":"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft","tags":["life","live","long "],"id":94817,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft"},{"text":"Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft","tags":["women","silence","mind "],"id":95173,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft"},{"text":"Gracious Creator of the whole human race! Hast thou created such a being as woman, who can trace thy wisdom in thy works, and feel that thou alone art by thy nature, exalted above her-for no better purpose? Can she believe that she was only made to submit to man her equal; a being, who, like her, was sent into the world to acquire virtue? Can she consent to be occupied merely to please him; merely to adorn the earth, when her soul is capable of rising to thee? And can she rest supinely dependent on man for reason, when she ought to mount with him the arduous steeps of knowledge?","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft","tags":["feminism"],"id":106965,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft"},{"text":"Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.","author":"Mary Wollstonecraft","tags":["critical-pedagogy","education","thinking"],"id":118949,"author_id":"Mary+Wollstonecraft"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}