I have been so accustomed to hear beauty of the mind extolled, that I have been led to expect something more than ordinary, when I have met with a woman with a cultivated understanding.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Early Modern

Early feminist philosopher

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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1792

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3420/3420-h/3420-h.htm

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