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Women, like oppressed men, are degraded by preferring present pleasure to the struggle for freedom
Drawn from what Mary Wollstonecraft said
What Mary Wollstonecraft actually said
- Mary Wollstonecraft English moral and political philosopher (1759 to 1797)
Women, I argue from analogy, are degraded by the same propensity to enjoy the present moment; and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Where this was said
↗A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)gutenberg.org
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