Mary Wollstonecraft
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Wollstonecraft was an English writer and philosopher best known for advocating women's rights.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 27 Apr 1759, Spitalfields, London (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 10 Sep 1797, aged 38, 11 days after the birth of her daughter Mary (opens wiqqi.app)
- Writing career: Left a post as governess in Ireland to live by writing in London, helped by the publisher Joseph Johnson; reviewed for his Analytical Review (opens wiqqi.app)
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43 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Independence is the great blessing of life and the basis of every virtue (opens korrents.com)
“Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.”
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Unless women are educated to be men's companions, they will hold back the progress of knowledge (opens korrents.com)
“Contending for the rights of women, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge, for truth must…”
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Not content with their physical advantage, men lower women further to make them merely alluring (opens korrents.com)
“But not content with this natural pre-eminence, men endeavour to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their…”
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Independence is the great blessing of life and the basis of every virtue (opens korrents.com)