“It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness.”

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

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 4

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British writer and philosopher 1759–1797

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