Mary Wollstonecraft — "I am not afraid of the world, nor of its censures."
I am not afraid of the world, nor of its censures.
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"Consider, I entreat you, what much more forcible reasons sound philosophy can produce to expand the capacities of woman, than those which are currently urged to repress them."
"Pleasure is the business of a woman's life, according to the present modification of society."
"Let us then, by way of experiment, suppose that women are allowed to acquire knowledge like men, and that their minds are not habituated to the slavish dependence that makes them become the abject too…"
"I have a mind that is always at work, and a heart that is always at rest."
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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.