An idea from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Virtue has one standard for both sexes. Truth, courage and self-control aren’t male virtues that women may skip in favor of softness. Even granting that men may reach more of it, women need the same kind.

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

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