Enlightenment

Mary Wollstonecraft

1759–1797

Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

She asked for education and for power over oneself, and she was specific about the difference between that and power over men. The Vindication is an argument, not an anthem, which is why the sentences still cut.

In the canon

  1. I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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