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It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

β€” Mary Wollstonecraft

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From Chapter 3 of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Read the surrounding argument as well as the excerpt; its historical language and philosophical assumptions shape its meaning.

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Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , Chapter 3

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