Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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• Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children