Mary Wollstonecraft — "The civil rights of woman, have been very little attended to, nay, almost univer…"
The civil rights of woman, have been very little attended to, nay, almost universally disregarded.
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"The grand source of female folly and vice has ever appeared to me to arise from a mistaken estimate of sexual character."
"The desire of appearing beautiful is a very natural one, and should be encouraged, though it cannot be satisfied by art."
"Marriage is a state of slavery for women."
"The common source of all the follies which degrade women, is the inexperience which they are condemned to acquire, till they are mothers of families."
"I am not a philosopher, but a woman of feeling."
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.