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Thanks to that Being who impressed them on my soul, and gave me sufficient strength of mind to dare to exert my own reason, till becoming dependent only on him for the support of my virtue, I view with indignation, the mistaken notions that enslave my sex.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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From Chapter 2 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 2

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