Mary Wollstonecraft — "I perceive that the most respectable women are the most unhappy."
I perceive that the most respectable women are the most unhappy.
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"I have a soul that is too proud to stoop to any meanness."
"It is a melancholy truth that among the higher classes, the only system of education adopted is calculated to make women more dependent and helpless."
"False notions of beauty and delicacy stop the growth of the mind, and instead of just principles, fill the imagination with romantic stories."
"Ignorance is a frail base for virtue."
"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."
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.