It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Quote More from Mary Wollstonecraft “If we pant after higher improvement and higher attainments, it is not sufficien…” “What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director i…” “Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is th…” “I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists…”