Mary Wollstonecraft — "How can a being be called rational who is only allowed to reason when she is to …"
How can a being be called rational who is only allowed to reason when she is to obey?
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"The great art of pleasing is to appear pleased."
"I am not afraid to own that I am a woman."
"The being who will not reason is a bigot; the being who cannot reason is a fool; and the being who dares not reason is a slave."
"I have a soul that pants for liberty."
"I shall be at a loss to discover why marriage has been called the tomb of love."
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.