Taught from their 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.

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Original Citation

Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Polical and Moral Subjects. 1792.

Current Citation

Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and A Vindication of the Rights of Men. Oxford UP, 2009.