Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
"Taught from their infancy that beauty is a woman's form of power, women come to see themselves as objects to be looked at rather than as thinking beings."
More from Mary Wollstonecraft
"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves."
"A woman who has only been taught to please will soon find her charms fade and herself forgotten."
"The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex."
"I am not fond of the idea of confining women to their families perpetually."