The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state for, like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity. I have turned over various books written on the subject of education, and patiently observed the conduct of parents and the management of schools but what has been the result? a profound conviction, that the neglected education of my fellow creatures is the grand source of the misery I deplore and that women in particular, are rendered weak and wretched by a variety of concurring causes, originating from one hasty conclusion. \)įrom A Vindication of the Rights of Woman from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman License: Public Domain Mary Wollstonecraft IntroductionĪfter considering the historic page, and viewing the living world with anxious solicitude, the most melancholy emotions of sorrowful indignation have depressed my spirits, and I have sighed when obliged to confess, that either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization, which has hitherto taken place in the world, has been very partial.
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