What Mary Wollstonecraft thinks about courage

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English moral and political philosopher (1759 to 1797); author of A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).

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   Our readingTreating fear in girls the way cowardice in boys is treated would give women more dignity

   Their wordsTo carry the remark still further, if fear in girls, instead of being cherished, perhaps, created, were treated in the same manner as cowardice in boys, we should quickly see women with more dignified aspects.

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