Thoughts on Wollstonecraft

What better way is there to learn about powerful women than reading something by a powerful woman? In all honesty, it is pretty impressive that Wollstonecraft had the courage to publish something like this, even though she got a lot of flak from it. Going so far as to speak against the current education system, knowing full well she would get a lot of criticism from it, is pretty impressive and awe-inspiring. Obviously her work fell on deaf ears back then, but now she's regarded as a powerful advocate for the equality that women should have had in the first place. While she acknowledges the differences between men and women when she says "a degree of physical superiority, therefore, cannot be denied - and it is a noble prerogative," we should not let them become our identity. She even says that we should embrace our differences, but not let our differences impose our beliefs on the other. At least, that's how I interpreted it.

Edit: Commented on Osten Belew's and Caroline Tucker's posts

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Ezra Kennedy said…
You’re right her words were given to swine at the time, and typically that’s the case and they are appreciated later on. I do like the part about not allowing our differences to separate us, but we should embrace them. Our differences should bring us together and unite us, so we can complement one another.