Quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft
1759 – 1797
Wollstonecraft was an English author who rose to prominence with a very quick response to Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. She extended her analysis two years later to defend the idea of equal rights for women in one of the founding texts of modern feminism - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Wollstonecraft lived in France during the Revolution and wrote an early history of that event. She also wrote travel letters and novels.
Bio
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Women’s Rights
Mary Wollstonecraft believes that women are no more naturally subservient than men and nobody, male or female, values freedom unless they have had to struggle to attain it (1792)
Women’s Rights
Mary Wollstonecraft’s “I have a dream” speech from 1792
Women’s Rights
Mary Wollstonecraft likens the situation of soldiers under a tyrant king to women under a tyrant husband (1792)
Women’s Rights
Mary Wollstonecraft on Women’s Education