Mary Wollstonecraft — "It is a melancholy reflection that the most important branch of education is oft…"
It is a melancholy reflection that the most important branch of education is often the most neglected.
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"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience."
"I have ever been of opinion, that the very word obedience, is not applicable to rational beings."
"It is a significant indication of the present state of society, that the greater part of the women, who have any independence of mind, are found in the lower classes."
"Many are the causes that conspire to render women more dependent than men; and one, not the least, is the false system of education, which is adopted for their sex."
"It is a waste of time to be always thinking of what you are to say."
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.