Advocate of Reason
Mary Wollstonecraft
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An English writer who argued that women seem weaker only because they are denied education, and should be educated in reason as men are.
Key work: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
“I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
A mind denied exercise only seems weak.
Virtue needs independence to grow.
Educate girls and boys in reason together.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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