An idea from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

In 1791 Talleyrand, a French statesman, drew up a plan for national schools. Under it, women would stay shut inside their families. If men claim the right to judge their own happiness, they can’t deny that right to women without first proving women can’t reason.

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

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