“It is a melancholy truth; yet such is the blessed effect of civilization! the most respectable women are the most oppressed; and, unless they have understandings far superiour to the common run of understandings, taking in both sexes, they must, from being treated like contemptible beings, become contemptible.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft, book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 9

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