An idea from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The advice is aimed at middle-class women, said to be “in the most natural state.” The rich are written off as vain and helpless. Poor women get little attention, though they are credited with the most real virtue.

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

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