Mary Wollstonecraft — "I am not a slave to any system, nor a devotee to any sect."
I am not a slave to any system, nor a devotee to any sect.
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"Women are rendered feeble and wretched by a variety of causes, some of which are natural, but more are artificial."
"The civil rights of woman, have been very little attended to, nay, almost universally disregarded."
"To be more precise, a woman should be educated to be a rational creature, and then she will be a good wife and mother."
"I am more than ever convinced that it is not by reason that we can expect to influence mankind."
"I have a soul that is too active to be idle."
About Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
English writer and proto-feminist philosopher whose A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is the founding text of modern feminist theory. Closely associated with Thomas Paine (Rights of Man co-conspirator and revolutionary contemporary) and William Godwin (her husband and philosopher of anarchism). For an intellectual contrast, see Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish conservative and parliamentarian — Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) was the explicit target of Wollstonecraft's first book — A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790), written in the weeks after Burke's appeared. She extended the argument to women in her second Vindication two years later. Burke's tradition-and-prescription conservatism is the worldview Wollstonecraft's career was structured against.