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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"The civil rights of woman, have been very little attended to, nay, almost universally disregarded."
"I am not a mere machine, but a thinking being."
"I have a soul that is too active to be idle."
"The most respectable women are the most oppressed."
"I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage."
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.