Mary Wollstonecraft — "Virtue can only flourish amongst equals."
Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.
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"I have a soul that is too active to be idle."
"In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason."
"The education of women has been so managed that the sex has been rendered an artificial, weak character, and, consequently, more or less useless members of society."
"Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."
"To be more loved than esteemed is a precarious tenure."
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.
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