The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Early Modern

Early feminist philosopher

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Date / Period

1792

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Strange & Unusual

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

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