MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

By Peyton Acosta

RANDOM FACTS

Born April 27 1759

Died September 10 1797 She died 10 days after having her second daughter.

She grew up with an abusive dad.

She was also the 2nd of 6 children

In 1784 she started a school with her sister Eliza and her friend Franny.

She had two children out of wedlock.

Her daughter Mary wrote Frankenstein.

http://www.biography.com/people/mary-wollstonecraft-9535967?page=1 This

is where I got my information

Here is a YouTube on her life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tYv3w4rZxI

HER THOUGHTS ON MARRIAGE

She only believed in certain kinds of

marriage. She thought that marriage

should be common respect and

affection, which can only happen if

they were both educated and

rational. She believed that love fades

and that only relationship based on

friendship would last. She was

completely against marriage based

on men treating their women as toys

or dolls.

HER THOUGHTS ON WOMEN

Mary was very critical of women who were very

stereotypical. She observed many women who were

irrational and only cared about beauty. She also saw

that some women would manipulate men to get what

they want; she called these women "capricious

tyrants”. She blamed society for women being like

this. She said that the reason women did not act

rationally is because they were never taught to be

rational.

HER PHILOSOPHY

She claimed that women were humans too and deserved the same rights as

men. She said the reason women of her time had a apparent superficialness

of the mind is not because they had a natural deficiency but because of the

lack of education. She blamed culture for teaching women from birth that

the only thing they should care about is their beauty. Though she believed

that women should be equal , she stated that men were superior in strength

and virtue.

http://www.egs.edu/library/mary-wollstonecraft/biography/ This where I

got my information.

SOME YOUTUBES ON HER PHILOSOPHY AND HER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjalBmkmkvE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7YPdheQISw

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT’S BOOKS

The Vindication of The Rights of Women

Thoughts on The Education of Daughters

The Vindication of the Right of Men

Maria or The Wrongs of Women

Letter Written in Sweden , Norway and Denmark

HER QUOTES

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only

mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's

scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and

roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its

prison.

The beginning is always today.

MORE QUOTES

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them

their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local

manners.

“I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.”

“...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for

a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the

influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in

their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find

amusement in their society.”

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1938850-a-vindication-of-the-rights-of-woman

This is where I got my information