Mary Wollstonecraft — "I shall be at a loss to discover why marriage has been called the tomb of love."
I shall be at a loss to discover why marriage has been called the tomb of love.
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"It is difficult for me to be patient with the folly of mankind."
"The grand source of female folly and vice has ever appeared to me to arise from a mistaken estimate of sexual character."
"I have a heart that is not to be trifled with."
"Women are rendered feeble and wretched by a variety of causes, some of which are natural, but more are artificial."
"The greatest characters have always been the most amiable."
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.