The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity. “The neglected education of my fellow-creatures is the grand source of the misery I deplore and that women, in particular, are rendered weak and wretched by a variety of concurring causes, originating from one hasty conclusion. Quotes from Mary Wollstonecraft’s, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) Georgia Colloquium in 18th- and 19th-Century Literature. The Correspondence of Amelia Alderson Opie: an online archive of networks and letters.
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