Mary Wollstonecraft — "To be more loved than esteemed is a precarious tenure."
To be more loved than esteemed is a precarious tenure.
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"The very constitution of civil society has been framed in the interest of men."
"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."
"Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority."
"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."
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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