Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: April 27, 1759 - September 10, 1797
Birthday: April 27
Death: September 10
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)
topic: Beauty, Women, Feminist, Infancy Is, Women Right, Vindication, Body Shapes
