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REFORMERS > writer, women's rights activist > Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft
Taught from infancy...
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Women, ch. 3, 1792.
-- Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft, (Apr 27 1759-1797), English writer, women's rights activist; She was an early advocate of women's rights; wrote Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792; mother of Mary Shelly; wife of William Godwin.