Mary Wollstonecraft:

I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! All my feelings are on the tortured rack; but I will not be a fool, if I can help it.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Early Modern

Early feminist philosopher

Letter to George Blood

1796

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