Mary Wollstonecraft — "I am not a slave to any system, nor a devotee to any sect."
I am not a slave to any system, nor a devotee to any sect.
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More from Mary Wollstonecraft
"I am not arguing for the rights of women but for the rights of humanity."
"I have always been of opinion, that the only way to make women rational creatures, and free citizens, is to allow them to pursue their own interest, and to follow the bent of their own inclinations."
"A woman who is not a mother, is not a woman."
"It is a happy thing for women, that there is a kind of fashion in their ideas, as well as in their dress."
"To be useful is more honorable than to be ornamental."
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.