Mary Wollstonecraft Character Quotations

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

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.

The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery ... proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.

Situation seems to be the mould in which men's characters are formed.

Taught from their 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. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.