“The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authori...” — Mary Wollstonecraft Quote

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

In a world of dispersed authority, the battle for the truth will be won or lost with the employees.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

Even if I'd wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, they weren't going to hire me, because I was saying things like, 'That's a dumb question' when I was asked something stupid in the interviews. I just didn't have a lot of respect for authority.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.