Mary Wollstonecraft — "Till women are more rationally educated, the progress of human virtue and improv…"
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress of human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive a continual check.
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"The education of women has been so managed that the sex has been rendered an artificial, weak character, and, consequently, more or less useless members of society."
"The desire of being always in a crowd, of being always seen, always admired, is a sure mark of a little mind."
"I am not a saint, but a sinner."
"I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves."
"Consider, I entreat you, what much more forcible reasons sound philosophy can produce to expand the capacities of woman, than those which are currently urged to repress them."
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.