Mary Wollstonecraft
writer · London, England · 1759–1797
A writer who supported herself as a governess and translator, and argued that women too are rational beings and must be educated as such. She died eleven days after giving birth to her daughter Mary Shelley.
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1792 · Answering Rousseau's remark that if women are educated like men, they will have less power over us
This is the very point I aim at. I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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