Mary Wollstonecraft — "I am not afraid of the world, nor of its censures."
I am not afraid of the world, nor of its censures.
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"I have ever been of opinion, that the very word obedience, is not applicable to rational beings."
"Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner, when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood."
"The woman who has only been taught to please will soon find that her power is of short duration."
"The education of women has been so managed that the sex has been rendered an artificial, weak character, and, consequently, more or less useless members of society."
"Pleasure is the business of women, according to the present modification of society, and while it continues to be so, little can be expected from such weak beings."
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.