Mary Wollstonecraft Sex Quotations

As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

... to improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship ...

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.