“I wish to persuade
women to endeavor to acquire strength both of body and mind…” (pg. 8)
“…elegance is inferior to virtue…” (pg. 8)
“…intellect will always govern.” (pg. 10)
I could go on and on with the quotes from this woman but I will
not since you all have read this too.
This woman! She is a sneaky little thing! I love in chapter
2 when she compares men’s oppression of women to the king’s oppression of men. During
the time this book was written there were many who were unhappy with the king’s
rule, so this was a sly little tactic that I very much appreciate. It was
ingenious of her to use this as a parallel during this time. It was so clear to
see the parallel between Wollstonecraft and some of the other authors we have
read this semester, especially when she was talking about learning. She fully
believed in learning to reason on your own and not rely on other people’s
reason, just as Locke, Hume, and some of the other did as well. I can fully
stand behind that statement. I don’t really know what I expected when I went to
read this book, but I have been pleasantly surprised so far. Let’s see if that remains
to be true.
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