Mary Wollstonecraft — "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
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"I am not a saint, but a sinner."
"The being who can govern itself, has an empire which the most despotic monarch cannot boast."
"It is a melancholy truth; yet a truth it is, that women, as well as men, without a proper education, will ever be a prey to their prejudices."
"I have a heart that is full of gratitude, and a head that is full of schemes."
"I have a soul that is too refined to be corrupted."
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.