A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Wollstonecraft is not passionate; she does not offer any inspiring words or flowery language. Wollstonecraft writes with no embellishment or artistry; yet, her words are commanding and exceedingly persuasive because what she does have is cold, hard, logic. And she knows it. “My own sex, I hope, will......more

OH MY GOD, this uncoventional, feminist woman is mother of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, who was one of my favorite author only after Rowling, Wilde, Plath...etc.? SHELLEY, you never tell me how cool your mother was!!!. I thought we were best friends.......more

‘Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.’ In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft dropped a bomb into the intellectual world with A Vindication of the Rights of Women, widely considered the first feminist manifesto. It will come as no surprise that there was a ho......more

3.5-4★ “. . . as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavour to keep women in the dark, because the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.” I saw reference several times to Mary Wollstonecraft around International Women’s Day......more

"I do not wish [women] to have power over men, but over themselves." ~Mary Wollstonecraft Doubly impressive when considered within the context of 18th century sensibilities, Wollstonecraft took on the educational and political theorists who held women in comparative low regard (if not outright conte......more