Mary Wollstonecraft — "I am not a mere ornament, but a helpmate."
I am not a mere ornament, but a helpmate.
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"The common source of all the follies which degrade women, is the inexperience which they are condemned to acquire, till they are mothers of families."
"Why are women not to have the same education as men? Because it would render them masculine and disgusting."
"I have been so accustomed to hear beauty of the mind extolled, that I have been led to expect something more than ordinary, when I have met with a woman with a cultivated understanding."
"I am not a mere plaything, but a companion."
"A woman who has been taught to think will always be a formidable opponent."
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.