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" So far from it, that, after surveying the history of woman, I cannot help, agreeing with the severest satirist, considering the sex as the weakest as well as the most oppressed half of the species. What does history disclose but marks of inferiority,... "
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral ... - Page 38
by Mary Wollstonecraft - 1833 - 214 pages
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political ..., Volume 1

Mary Wollstonecraft - 1796 - 504 pages
...marks of inferiority, and how few women have emancipated themfelves from the galling yoke of fovereign man ? — So few, that the exceptions remind me of an ingenious conjecture refpecting Newton : that he was probably a being of fuperior order, accidently caged in a human body....
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Annual Register, Volume 34

Edmund Burke - 1821 - 888 pages
...a family or educate children ? So far from it, that, after surveying the history of woman, I cannot help agreeing with the severest satirist, considering...half of the species. . What does history disclose bnt marks of inferiority ? and how few women have emancipated themselves fiom the galling yoke of sovereign...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral ...

Mary Wollstonecraft - 1891 - 314 pages
...a family or educate children ? So far from it, that, after surveying the history of woman, I cannot help, agreeing with the severest satirist, considering...respecting Newton : that he was probably a being of superior order, accidentally caged in a human body. Following the same train of thinking, I have been...
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The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir

Alice S. Rossi - 1988 - 748 pages
...a family or educate children? So far from it, that, after surveying the history of woman, I cannot help, agreeing with the severest satirist, considering...respecting Newton: that he was probably a being of superior order, accidentally caged in a human body. Following the same train of thinking, I have been...
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Philosophy of Woman: An Anthology of Classic to Current Concepts

Mary Briody Mahowald - 1994 - 552 pages
...should be hunted out of society as masculine. . . . [A]fter surveying the history of woman, I cannot help, agreeing with the severest satirist, considering...respecting Newton : that he was probably a being of superior order, accidentally caged in a human body. Following the same train of thinking, I have been...
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Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the ...

Mary Wollstonecraft - 1995 - 396 pages
...or educate children? So far from it, that, after surveying the history of woman, I cannot help, 104 agreeing with the severest satirist, considering the...that he was probably a being of a superior order, accidently caged in a human body. Following the same train of thinking, I have been led to imagine...
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Readings on Human Nature

Peter Loptson - 1998 - 588 pages
...a family or educate children? So far from it, that, after surveying the history of woman, I cannot help agreeing with the severest satirist, considering...respecting Newton that he was probably a being of superior order accidentally caged in a human body. Following the same train of thinking, I have been...
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Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century

Susan Gubar - 2000 - 270 pages
...adversaries, as she herself admits: "after surveying the history of woman," she concedes, "I cannot help, agreeing with the severest satirist, considering...as well as the most oppressed half of the species" (35). And several passages in A Vindication do seem to agree with "the severest satiristfs]" of women....
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Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - 2001 - 502 pages
...a family or educate children? So far from it, that, after surveying the history of woman, 1 cannot help agreeing with the severest satirist, considering...respecting Newton — that he was probably a being of a supérieur order accidentally caged in a human body. Following the same train of thinking, I have been...
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Mary Wollstonecraft zwischen Feminismus und Opportunismus: die diskursiven ...

Elisabeth Gibbels - 2004 - 214 pages
...a family or educate children? So far from it, that, after surveying the history of woman, I cannot help agreeing with the severest satirist, considering...respecting Newton: that he was probably a being of superior order, accidentally caged in a human body. In the same style, I have been led to imagine that...
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