Ocupation: Writer
Life: April 27, 1759 - September 10, 1797
Birthday: April 27
Death: September 10
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 4 (1792)
topic: Sex, Women, Thinking, Degrade, Vindication