Mary Wollstonecraft — "I am more and more convinced that happiness is not to be found on this side of e…"
I am more and more convinced that happiness is not to be found on this side of eternity.
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"The civil rights of woman, have been very little attended to, nay, almost universally disregarded."
"It is a significant indication of the present state of society, that the greater part of the women, who have any independence of mind, are found in the lower classes."
"A great many women and men, too, make a point of never thinking about a subject without having taken a side first."
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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.