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“Besides, the woman who strengthens her body and exercises her mind will, by managing her family and practising various virtues, become the friend, and not the humble dependent of her husband; and if she deserves his regard by possessing such substantial qualities, she will not find it necessary to conceal her affection, nor to pretend to an unnatural coldness of constitution to excite her husband's passions.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“A king is always a king--and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex, ever stand between them and rational converse.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“How much more respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling any duty, than the most accomplished beauty!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“I presume that RATIONAL men will excuse me for endeavouring to persuade them to become more masculine and respectable.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman