Mary Wollstonecraft:

I have been so accustomed to hear beauty of the mind extolled, that I have been led to expect something more than ordinary, when I have met with a woman with a cultivated understanding.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Early Modern

Early feminist philosopher

Context

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Date / Period

1792

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3420/3420-h/3420-h.htm

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Explanation

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