"Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; – that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers."
― Mary Wollstonecraft
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Women
More From Mary Wollstonecraft
- "If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?"
- "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."
- "Virtue can only flourish among equals."
More In Women
- "I don’t think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place."― Dee Dee Myers
- "To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served."― Solomon Ortiz
- "My family is awesome."― Miranda Lambert