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.
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"Ignorance is a frail base for virtue."
"I have a heart that is full of gratitude, and a head that is full of schemes."
"The being who will not reason is a bigot; the being who cannot reason is a fool; and the being who dares not reason is a slave."
"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."
"The heart of man is not so much depraved by nature, as warped by custom."
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.
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