An idea from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The payoff offered is homely: “make women rational creatures and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives, and mothers.” It comes with a condition, that men do their duty as husbands and fathers. Later feminists found that domestic aim too narrow.

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

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