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Mary Wollstonecraft

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I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#empowerment #equality #freedom #gender #independence

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#chooses #evil #good #happiness #man

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#beauty #clichés #distinction #empowerment #gender

Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#conditioning #feminism #inequality #misogyny #stereotypes

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#empowerment #feminism #freedom #gender #hypocrisy

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#equality #freedom #gender #independence #men

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#eye #fix #intellectual #may #mind

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#citizens #creatures #duties #fathers #free

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#beauty #body #cage #gilt #infancy

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#being #ennobled #exertions #how #obtained






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However with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. : /ˈwʊlstən. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) in which Mary Wollstonecraft argues that women are not naturally inferior to men but appear to be only because they lack education.

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