A Birthday Thought

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Born August 30th 1797 in Somers Town, London

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves

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and a comment on the state of education for women at the time

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with

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