“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft · Courage quote

I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft quote card
Writer and women's rights advocate · 1759 – 1797

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer and advocate of women's rights, best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). She argued that women are not naturally inferior to men but appear so because of a lack of education. She was the mother of Frankenstein author Mary Shelley.

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