Frances Wright Quotes

[Men] are incomprehensible animals... They walk about boasting of their wisdom, strength, and sovereignty, while they have not sense so much as to swallow an apple with the aid of an Eve to put it down their throats.

~ Frances Wright

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

~ Frances Wright

I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

~ Frances Wright

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

~ Frances Wright

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

~ Frances Wright

It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

~ Frances Wright

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

~ Frances Wright

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.

~ Frances Wright

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

~ Frances Wright

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

~ Frances Wright