Who is Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (, also UK: ; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional personal relationships at the time, received more attention than her writing. Today Wollstonecraft is regarded as one of the founding feminist philosophers, and feminists often cite both her life and her works as important influences.During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because the...
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- The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
- In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
- Taught from 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.
- Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
- Virtue can only flourish among equals.
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Zoibug75: “the beginning is always today.” – mary wollstonecraft shelleyMr_frazierky: “nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” ― mary wollstonecraft shelley, frankenstein
Chrisbrooke: "if ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author", william godwin wrote of mary wollstonecraft's "a short residence in sweden, norway and denmark", "this appears to me to be the book".
Mr_frazierky: “the world to me was a secret, which i desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.” ― mary wollstonecraft shelley, frankenstein
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