Mary Wollstonecraft — "In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result fr…"
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
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More from Mary Wollstonecraft
"It is a great misfortune to be born a woman."
"To be more precise, a woman should be educated to be a rational creature, and then she will be a good wife and mother."
"I am not afraid to own that I am a woman."
"It is a melancholy truth that among the higher classes, the only system of education adopted is calculated to make women more dependent and helpless."
"I have been in love with a man of my own sex, and have found him as capricious as any of the other."
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.