Mary Wollstonecraft — "It is a melancholy reflection that the most important branch of education is oft…"
It is a melancholy reflection that the most important branch of education is often the most neglected.
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"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."
"How can a being be called rational who is only allowed to reason when she is to obey?"
"The being who can govern itself, has an empire which the most despotic monarch cannot boast."
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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.