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Mary Wollstonecraft, born on April 27, 1759, and died on September 10, 1797, was an influential English writer, philosopher, and feminist. She is best known for her work 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman', which challenged the gender roles and social structures of her time.

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Famous Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

“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.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.”

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Book:A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.”

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“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 weaknesses.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”

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Book:Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

Source: Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints

“The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.”

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Author:Mary Wollstonecraft