Mary Wollstonecraft — "Contending for the rights of woman, my main argument is built on this simple pri…"

Contending for the rights of woman, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge and virtue; for truth must be common to all, or it will be inefficacious with respect to its influence on general practice.
Mary Wollstonecraft — Mary Wollstonecraft Early Modern · Early feminist philosopher

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Date: 1792

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