Мэри Уолстонкрафт цитаты

Мэ́ри Уо́лстонкрафт — британская писательница, философ XVIII века. Автор романов, трактатов, сборника писем, книги об истории Великой французской революции, книги о воспитании и детской книги. Уолстонкрафт известна своим эссе «В защиту прав женщин» , в котором она утверждает, что женщины не являются существами, стоящими на более низкой ступени развития по отношению к мужчинам, но кажутся такими из-за недостаточного образования. Она предлагает рассматривать и мужчин и женщин как разумных существ и представляет общественный строй, основанный на разуме.

Среди широкой публики и особенно у феминисток события личной жизни Уолстонкрафт получили более широкую известность, чем её произведения, из-за своей необычности, а подчас и скандальности. После двух неудачных романов с Генри Фюзели и Гильбертом Имлеем Уолстонкрафт вышла замуж за Уильяма Годвина, философа, предтечу анархистского движения. Их дочь Мэри Шелли известна как автор романа «Франкенштейн». Уолстонкрафт умерла в тридцать восемь лет от родильной горячки, оставив после себя несколько незаконченных рукописей.

После смерти писательницы Годвин в 1798 году издал мемуары о своей жене, женщине без предрассудков, чем невольно повредил её репутации. Однако с усилением феминистского движения в начале XX века взгляды Уолстонкрафт на женские права и критика типичного представления о женственности становились всё более важными. Сегодня Уолстонкрафт считается одной из первых феминистских философов, а её жизнь и работы оказали большое влияние на многих феминисток. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Апрель 1759 – 10. Сентябрь 1797
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“Should it be proved that woman is naturally weaker than man, from whence does it follow that it is natural for her to labour to become still weaker than nature intended her to be?”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Источник: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3
Контексте: Should it be proved that woman is naturally weaker than man, from whence does it follow that it is natural for her to labour to become still weaker than nature intended her to be? Arguments of this cast are an insult to common sense, and savour of passion. The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is to be hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger, and though conviction may not silence many boisterous disputants, yet, when any prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, and leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.

“Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга Original Stories from Real Life

Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness (1788; 1791)
Контексте: Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason; but, as this task requires more judgment than generally falls to the lot of parents, substitutes must be sought for, and medicines given, when regimen would have answered the purpose much better. I believe those who examine their own minds, will readily agree with me, that reason, with difficulty, conquers settled habits, even when it is arrived at some degree of maturity: why then do we suffer children to be bound with fetters, which their half-formed faculties cannot break.
In writing the following work, I aim at perspicuity and simplicity of style; and try to avoid those unmeaning compliments, which slip from the tongue, but have not the least connexion with the affections that should warm the heart, and animate the conduct. By this false politeness, sincerity is sacrificed, and truth violated; and thus artificial manners are necessarily taught. For true politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

“It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letter 22
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)

“How can a rational being be ennobled by anything that is not obtained by its own exertions?”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Источник: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3

“We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letter 19
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга A Vindication of the Rights of Men

A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)

“The more I see of the world, the more I am convinced that civilisation is a blessing not sufficiently estimated by those who have not traced its progress; for it not only refines our enjoyments, but produces a variety which enables us to retain the primitive delicacy of our sensations.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letter 2
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
Контексте: The more I see of the world, the more I am convinced that civilisation is a blessing not sufficiently estimated by those who have not traced its progress; for it not only refines our enjoyments, but produces a variety which enables us to retain the primitive delicacy of our sensations. Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness, unless continual novelty serve as a substitute for the imagination, which, being impossible, it was to this weariness, I suppose, that Solomon alluded when he declared that there was nothing new under the sun!

“To be a good mother — a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Источник: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 10
Контексте: To be a good mother — a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow.

“Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letter 19
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
Контексте: Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

“I am persuaded that even the most spontaneous sensations are more under the direction of principle than weak people are willing to allow.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letter 17
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
Контексте: Affection requires a firmer foundation than sympathy, and few people have a principle of action sufficiently stable to produce rectitude of feeling; for in spite of all the arguments I have heard to justify deviations from duty, I am persuaded that even the most spontaneous sensations are more under the direction of principle than weak people are willing to allow.

“Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married state.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), "Matrimony", p. 100
Контексте: Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married state. Her sphere of action is not large, and if she is not taught to look into her own heart, how trivial are her occupations and pursuits! What little arts engross and narrow her mind!

“An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Appendix
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
Контексте: An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely. To render them useful and permanent, they must be the growth of each particular soil, and the gradual fruit of the ripening understanding of the nation, matured by time, not forced by an unnatural fermentation.

“Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
Контексте: It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust — ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream.

“Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letter 12
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)
Контексте: Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose. Besides, few like to be seen as they really are; and a degree of simplicity, and of undisguised confidence, which, to uninterested observers, would almost border on weakness, is the charm, nay the essence of love or friendship, all the bewitching graces of childhood again appearing.

“By this false politeness, sincerity is sacrificed, and truth violated; and thus artificial manners are necessarily taught. For true politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга Original Stories from Real Life

Original Stories from Real Life; with Conversations Calculated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness (1788; 1791)
Контексте: Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason; but, as this task requires more judgment than generally falls to the lot of parents, substitutes must be sought for, and medicines given, when regimen would have answered the purpose much better. I believe those who examine their own minds, will readily agree with me, that reason, with difficulty, conquers settled habits, even when it is arrived at some degree of maturity: why then do we suffer children to be bound with fetters, which their half-formed faculties cannot break.
In writing the following work, I aim at perspicuity and simplicity of style; and try to avoid those unmeaning compliments, which slip from the tongue, but have not the least connexion with the affections that should warm the heart, and animate the conduct. By this false politeness, sincerity is sacrificed, and truth violated; and thus artificial manners are necessarily taught. For true politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

“Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга A Vindication of the Rights of Men

A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)

“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Источник: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 4

“Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Источник: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3

“A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Источник: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 7

“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.”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Источник: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3

“If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?”

Mary Wollstonecraft книга A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Источник: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 3

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

Mary Wollstonecraft книга Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letter 23
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)

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