1. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Before matrimony, she would do all that she could to please men and, afterward, her self-worth was determined by the amount of attention her husband gave her. ... "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." ... She was willing to recognize man as her fellow, "but his scepter, real, or usurped," she wrote, "extends not to me." Wollstonecraft understood that man was given a stronger frame by nature, but he held an unjust authority over the opposite sex. ... Wollstonecraf...
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