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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#freeing #grasp #human #human mind #itself

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#heart #life #more #perishable #resides

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#contested #danger #divine #enlightened #hoped

Virtue can only flourish among equals.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#among #equals #flourish #only #virtue

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#beyond #fancy #grave #hell #our

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#degraded #despise #enjoy #freedom #last

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#any #arbitrarily #being #deliberations #direct

The beginning is always today.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#beginning #today

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.


— Mary Wollstonecraft


#degraded #fact #in fact #manly #men

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






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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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