Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Early Modern

Early feminist philosopher

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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1792

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34201/34201-h/34201-h.htm

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