por beatriz j a, em 30.04.12
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
Mary Wollstonecraft