“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, book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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

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