Mary Wollstonecraft a vindication of the rights of women.
London, 1792. From the tyranny of man.
I firmly believe the greater number of female follies proceed and the cunning which I allow makes it present a part of their character.
I likewise have repeatedly endeavoured to prove is produced by oppression.
We are not dissenters. For instance, a class of people with strict truth characterised as cunning.
And may not I lay some stress on this fact to prove that when any power that reason kerbs the free spirit of man
dissimulation is practised and the various shifts of art are naturally called forth great attention to decorum,
which was carried to a degree of scrupulous ity and all that puerile bustle about trifles and consequential
solemnity which Butler's caricature of a dissenter brings before the imagination shaped their persons,
as well as their minds in the mould of prim literalness.
I speak collectively for I know how many ornaments to human nature have been enrolled among secretaries.
Yet I assert that the same narrow prejudice for their sect, which women have for their families, prevailed in the dissenting part of the community.
However worthy in other respects. And also that the same timid prudence or headstrong efforts often disgrace to the exertions of both oppression,
thus formed many of the features of their character perfectly to coincide with that of the oppressed half of mankind.
For is it not notorious that dissenters were like women fond of deliberating together
and asking advice of each other till by a complication of little contrivances,
some little end was brought about a similar attention to preserve.
Their reputation was conspicuous in the dissenting and female world and was produced by a similar cause.
Asserting the rights which women in common with men ought to contend for.
I have not attempted to accentuate their faults, but to prove them to be the natural consequence of their education and station in society.
If so,
it is reasonable to suppose that they will change their character and correct their vices and follies when they are allowed to be free in a physical,
moral and civil sense. Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man.
So she must grow more perfect when emancipated. Or justify the authority that chains such a weak be to her duty.
If the latter, it will be expedient to open a fresh trade with Russia for whips,
a present which a father should always make to his son in law on his wedding day.
That her husband may keep his whole family in order by the same means and without any violation of justice Reine wielding the
sceptre so master of his house because he is the only thing in it who has reason the divine into feasible earthly sovereignty,
breathed into man by the master of the universe. Allowing this position.
Women have not any inherent rights to claim, and by the same rule, the duties of varnish for rights and duties are inseparable.
Be just then holy men of understanding and mark not more severely what women do amiss than the vicious
tricks of the horse or the ass for whom you provide provender and allow her the privileges of ignorance,
to whom you deny the rights of reason, or you will be worse than Egyptian task masters expecting virtue where nature has not given understanding.