Mary Wollstonecraft
Brief Bio: English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights
Lived: 1759-1797
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Quotes:
“Placed on this earth to unfold their faculties”
I shall first consider women in the grand light of human creatures who, in common with men, are placed on this earth to unfold their faculties.
1792 from the essay “Vindication of the Rights of Women”