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“It is time to effect a revolution in female manners, time to restore to them their lost dignity, and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world.
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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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