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Mary Wollstonecraft brit író, filozófus és feminista. Rövid pályafutása alatt írt regényeket, értekezéseket, egy utazási elbeszélést, a nagy francia forradalom történetét, egy viselkedéskönyvet, és egy gyerekkönyvet. Mary Wollstonecraft, az újkori nőjogi mozgalmak elindítója volt, az A Vindication of the Rights of Woman című, női egyenjogúságot hirdető írása nagy visszhangra lelt Londonban.



„Miben áll az emberek felsőbbsége az oktalan állathoz képest?

Erre a kérdésre válaszolni éppoly könnyű, mint ésszel belátni azt, hogy a fél kevesebb az egésznél. Miért is plántálták belénk a szenvedélyeket?

Mert azokkal megküzdve talán elérhetjük a tudásnak egy olyan szintjét, melyet a vadállatoktól megtagadtak.

Ennek következtében természetünk tökéletessége, a boldogságra való képességünk azon mérhető, mennyire vagyunk észszerűek, erényesek és emberségesek, mert ezek különböztetik meg az egyént, s az ész, a tudás és az erény gyakorlásának természetes velejárói.” Wikipedia  

✵ 27. április 1759 – 10. szeptember 1797
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Mary Wollstonecraft: Idézetek angolul

“Women becoming, consequently weaker, in mind and body, than they ought to be…have not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affection…either destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft könyv A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Forrás: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 8

“The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful to society, had that society been well organized.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft könyv Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Letter 19
Letters Written in Sweden (1796)

“The preposterous distinction of rank, which render civilization a curse, by dividing the world between voluptuous tyrants and cunning envious dependents, corrupt, almost equally, every class of people, because respectability is not attached to the discharge of the relative duties of life, but to the station, and when the duties are not fulfilled, the affections cannot gain sufficient strength to fortify the virtue of which they are the natural reward. Still there are some loop-holes out of which a man may creep, and dare to think and act for himself; but for a woman it is an herculean task, because she has difficulties peculiar to her sex to overcome, which require almost super-human powers.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft könyv A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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

“I see not the shadow of a reason to conclude that their [the sexes'] virtues should differ in respect to their nature. In fact, how can they, if virtue has only one eternal standard? I must therefore, if I reason consequentially, as strenuously maintain that they must have the same simple direction as that there is a God.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft könyv A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

“Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft

The French Revolution, Bk. V, ch. 4 (1794)

“I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There is certainly a great defect in my mind — my wayward heart creates its own misery — Why I am made thus I cannot tell; and, till I can form some idea of the whole of my existence, I must be content to weep and dance like a child — long for a toy, and be tired of it as soon as I get it.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Undated letter to Joseph Johnson (October? 1792), published in The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft (2004), edited by Janet Todd, p. 206.

“Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed, because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavour to settle that power on a Divine right, which will not bear the investigation of reason.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft könyv A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Forrás: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 11

“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.”

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

“I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.”

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Letter to Gilbert Imlay (19 August 1794)

“Men have superior strength of body; but were it not for mistaken notions of beauty, women would acquire sufficient to enable them to earn their own subsistence, the true definitions of independence; and to bear those bodily inconveniences and exertions that are requisite to strengthen the mind. Let us then, by being allowed to take the same exercise as boys, not only during infancy, but youth, arrive at perfection of body, that we may know how far the nation superiority of man extends . For what reason or virtue can be expected from a creature when the seed-time of life is neglected? None; did not the winds of heaven casually scatter many useful seeds in fallow ground.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft könyv A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Forrás: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch.5

“It is of great importance to observe that the character of every man is, in some degree, formed by his profession. A man of sense may only have a cast of countenance that wears off as you trace his individuality, whist the weak, common man has scarcely ever any character, but what belongs to the body; at least, all his opinions have been so steeped in the vat consecrated by authority, that the faint spirit which the grape of his own vine yields, cannot be distinguished.”

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Forrás: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 1

“A standing army, for instance, is incompatible with freedom; because subordination and rigour are the very sinews of military discipline; and despotism is necessary to give vigour to enterprise that one will directs. A spirit inspired by romantic notions of honour, a kind of morality founded on the fashion of the age, can only be felt by a few officers, whilst the main body must be moved by command, like the waves of the sea; for the strong wind of authority pushes the crowd of subalterns forward, they scarcely know or care why, with headlong fury.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft könyv A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Forrás: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 1

“It is impossible for any man, when the most favourable circumstances concur, to acquire sufficient knowledge and strength of mind to discharge the duties of a king, entrusted with uncontrolled power; how then must they be violated when his very elevation is an insuperable bar to the attainment of either wisdom or virtue; when all the feelings of a man are stifled by flattery, and reflection shut out by pleasure! Surely it is madness to make the fate of thousands depend on the caprice of a weak fellow creature, whose very station sinks him NECESSARILY below the meanest of his subjects! But one power should not be thrown down to exalt another--for all power intoxicates weak man; and its abuse proves, that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft könyv A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Forrás: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 1

“In the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths, and to dispute with some prevailing prejudice every inch of ground. To clear my way, I must be allowed to ask some plain questions, and the answers will probably appear as unequivocal as the axioms on which reasoning is built; though, when entangled with various motives of action, they are formally contradicted either by the words or conduct of men.”

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Mary Wollstonecraft könyv A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Forrás: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 1, opening