Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain them the protection of man; and should they be beautiful, every thing else is needless, for, at least, twenty years of their lives.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Early Modern
Early feminist philosopher
