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Gilt als erste Frauenrechtlerin Englands mit dem Ziel: "Eine Frau soll mehr als eine Partnerin des Mannes sein, als dessen Geliebte bzw. Hausfrau", Mutter von Mary Wollstonecraft-Shelley, der Autorin des Romans "Frankenstein" (England, 1759 - 1797).

Mary Wollstonecraft-Goldwyn · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Mary Wollstonecraft-Goldwyn wäre heute 264 Jahre, 11 Monate, 30 Tage oder 96.789 Tage alt.

Geboren am 27.04.1759 in London
Gestorben am 10.09.1797 in London
Sternzeichen: ♉ Stier

• Ein Gatte ist ein angenehmes Möbelstück, vorausgesetzt, daß er nicht unbeweglich an Ort und Stelle klebt.

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• Jetzt werfe ich den Fehdehandschuh hin und leugne das Vorhandensein spezieller geschlechtlicher Tugenden, einschließlich der Sittsamkeit. Für Mann und Frau muß die Wahrheit dieselbe sein.
  • Wahrheit
  • Mann/Männer
  • Frau(en)

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• A king is always a king-and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.

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• A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

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• Genteel women are, literally speaking, slaves to their bodies . . .Thaught from their 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.

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

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• Minute attention to propriety stops the growth of virtue.

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• No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

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• She [woman] was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his ears whenever, dismissing reason, he chooses to be amused.

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• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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• The pure animal spirits which make both mind and body shoot out, and unfold the tender blossoms of hope, are turned sour and vented in vain wishes, or pert repinings, that contract the faculties and spoil the temper; else they mount to the brain, and sharpening the understanding before it gains proportional strength, produce that pitiful cunning which disgracefully characterizes the female mind and I fear will characterize it whilst women remain the slaves of power.

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• To give a sex to mind was not very consistent with the principles of a man (J.-J. Rousseau) who argued so warmly, and so well, for the immortality of the soul.

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• True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

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• Was not the world a vast prison, and women born slaves?

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• When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

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