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Without mistaken notions of beauty, women could gain enough strength to earn their own living
Drawn from what Mary Wollstonecraft said
What Mary Wollstonecraft actually said
- Mary Wollstonecraft English moral and political philosopher (1759 to 1797)
Men have superiour strength of body; but were it not for mistaken notions of beauty, women would acquire sufficient to enable them to earn their own subsistence, the true definition of independence; and to bear those bodily inconveniences and exertions that are requisite to strengthen the mind.
Where this was said
↗A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)gutenberg.org
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