mary wollstonecraft shelley a vindication of women's rights

mary wollstonecraft shelley a vindication of women

The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove, that their minds are not in a healthy state for, like the flowers that are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity.

I have turned over various books written on the subject of education, and patiently observed the conduct of parents and the management of schools but what has been the result? a profound conviction, that the neglected education of my fellow creatures is the grand source of the misery I deplore and that women in particular, are rendered weak and wretched by a variety of concurring causes, originating from one hasty conclusion.

zip file containing this book to use offline, simply click here.Īfter considering the historic page, and viewing the living world with anxious solicitude, the most melancholy motions of sorrowful indignation have depressed my spirits, and I have sighed when obliged to confess, that either nature has made a great difference between man and man, or that the civilization, which has hitherto taken place in the world, has been very partial. You can browse or download additional books there.

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Mary wollstonecraft shelley a vindication of women's rights