Mary Wollstonecraft — "I have ever been of opinion, that the very word obedience, is not applicable to …"
I have ever been of opinion, that the very word obedience, is not applicable to rational beings.
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"Men are not more naturally brave than women, nor more naturally rational. They are only rendered so by education."
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"I have a heart that is ready to burst with the tenderest affection, and a head that is full of the most exalted notions."
"The desire of appearing beautiful is a very natural one, and should be encouraged, though it cannot be satisfied by art."
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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.