Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions, which men think… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions, which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman · 1792
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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.
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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Boston: Thomas and Andrews/London: J. Johnson, 1792, ch. 4.
