1. Mary Wollstonecraft
Philosopher of the Day

2. Mary Wollstonecraft Born in England 1759-1797
Teacher, translator, writer

3. Started Women’s Rights Movement
Wrote:
Vindication of the Rights of Women

4. Nature of Man Men and women are equal
“Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.”

5. On Government Men and women should have a voice in government.
Women will protect the common good.

6. Wollstonecraft was ridiculed for her ideas

7. Views on Education
To deny women an equal education is to keep them enslaved.
Society will never achieve perfection, until women are educated.

8. Quotes:
“Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.”

9. “I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
Quotes:
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”

10. Quotes:
“Love is not to be bought, in any sense of the words, or its silken wings are instantly shriveled up when anything beside a return in kind is sought.”

11. “We never do anything well, unless we love it for its own sake”
Quotes:
“We never do anything well, unless we love it for its own sake”

12. Mary Wollstonecraft English Wrote: Vindication of the Rights of Women
Men & women are equal.
Women will protect the common good.
Feminism
Started the women’s movement.