An idea from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Girls are said to love dolls and dresses from birth. Sit a girl for hours beside her mother’s mirror and she’ll copy what she sees. Let her run outdoors with her brother and she’ll play as hard as he does.

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

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