Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Women and Femininity Quotes
Rousseau declares that a woman should never, for a moment, feel herself independent, that she should be governed by fear to exercise her natural cunning, and made a coquettish slave in order to re...
Men and Masculinity Quotes
I am aware of an obvious inference:—from every quarter have I heard exclamations against masculine women; but where are they to be found? (I.4)
Marriage Quotes
It is acknowledged that they spend many of the first years of their lives in acquiring a smattering of accomplishments; meanwhile strength of body and mind are sacrificed to libertine notions of be...
Sex Quotes
Passions are spurs to action, and open the mind; but they sink into mere appetites, become a personal and momentary gratification, when the object is gained, and the satisfied mind rests in enjoyme...
Slavery Quotes
Dismissing then those pretty feminine phrases, which the men condescendingly use to soften our slavish dependence. (I.9)
Appearances Quotes
He advises them to cultivate a fondness for dress, because a fondness for dress, he asserts, is natural to them. (2.37)
Education Quotes
By individual education, I mean, for the sense of the word is not precisely defined, such an attention to a child as will slowly sharpen the senses, form the temper, regulate the passions as they b...
Religion Quotes
Firmly persuaded that no evil exists in the world that God did not design to take place, I build my belief on the perfection of God. (1.15)