Portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft

1759 – 1797

Wollstonecraft was an English author who rose to prominence with a very quick response to Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. She extended her analysis two years later to defend the idea of equal rights for women in one of the founding texts of modern feminism - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Wollstonecraft lived in France during the Revolution and wrote an early history of that event. She also wrote travel letters and novels.

Bio

Wollstonecraft featured as the April 2022 OLL Birthday. Read it here

Titles

Women’s Rights

Mary Wollstonecraft believes that women are no more naturally subservient than men and nobody, male or female, values freedom unless they have had to struggle to attain it (1792)

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women’s Rights

Mary Wollstonecraft’s “I have a dream” speech from 1792

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women’s Rights

Mary Wollstonecraft likens the situation of soldiers under a tyrant king to women under a tyrant husband (1792)

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women’s Rights

Mary Wollstonecraft on Women’s Education

Mary Wollstonecraft

Education

Mary Wollstonecraft, Education, and the Young Mind

Mary Wollstonecraft