- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
This quote illustrates Wollstonecraft’s interest in breastfeeding as an important duty for women. In contrast to many middle-class attitudes of the time, which rejected breastfeeding in favor of preserving a woman’s youthful beauty for as long as possible, Wollstonecraft believes that nursing one’s baby is vital not only for maternal bonding, but for marital bonding as well. She holds that nature has provided this means of cementing and deepening affection among families, but that women who are accustomed to idleness and indulgence are not inclined to take on this or any other familial duty, to their own further detriment. For…