Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

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.

Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls.

I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

I think feeling responsible for stuff that goes wrong is an inherent part of being female.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home; that a woman should not aspire to achieve more than her male counterparts and, particularly, not more than her husband.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

There are certain restrictive parts of a woman’s constitution that that were given her by nature and which forbid us from applying the same standard of expectation to women as to men.

Control of females is mandatory for a successful, civilized, humane and compassionate society

There is a thing about women that needs to be understood. We don't sit well with being put in a certain place.

People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.

Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!

Of course the female experience is different from those of our male peers - just like every woman's story is different from their fellow females.

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.

I get angry about the way women are forced and bullied into what the male ideal is.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.