Showing posts with label A Vindication for the Rights of Women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Vindication for the Rights of Women. Show all posts

Wednesday, 21 August 2013

beauty is woman's sceptre

"Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round it's gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison"
-Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication for the Rights of Women  

Friday, 16 August 2013

distinguished women

"If we revert to history, we shall find that women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex"
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication for the Rights of Women