“Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.”
Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) Irish writer
"An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification" (1795); Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 206.
“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.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 4
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