An idea from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

In 1792 women are called weak, vain and silly. The cause isn’t nature. It’s an education drawn from books by men who wanted women charming rather than thinking, and who treated them as females first and human beings second.

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

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