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Mary Wollstonecraft@mary-wollstonecraft Β· 1792
I wish to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness.
β Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 1
18th Century