Mary Wollstonecraft — "A woman who has been taught to think will always be a formidable opponent."
A woman who has been taught to think will always be a formidable opponent.
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"I have a soul that is too proud to stoop to any meanness."
"Women are rendered feeble and wretched by a variety of causes, some of which are natural, but more are artificial."
"It is a happy thing for women, that there is a kind of fashion in their ideas, as well as in their dress."
"I have a heart that is too open to be deceived."
"I am not a mere plaything, but a companion."
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.