Mary Wollstonecraft — "Men have been more anxious to make women alluring mistresses than affectionate w…"
Men have been more anxious to make women alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers.
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"I would fain persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body."
"I have a soul that is too refined to be corrupted."
"I am a child of nature, who has been taught to think; and I will not resign my birthright for a mess of pottage."
"A man should not be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners—time to restore to them their lost dignity."
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.