Mary Wollstonecraft — "The greatest characters have always been the most amiable."
The greatest characters have always been the most amiable.
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"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."
"To be more precise, a woman should be educated to be a rational creature, and then she will be a good wife and mother."
"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."
"Ignorance is a frail base for virtue."
"I have been so much accustomed to hear of the rights of men, that I begin to ask, what are the rights of women?"
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.
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