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I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
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