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... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant and the remainder vain and mean.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft
Age: 38 †
Born: 1759
Born: April 27
Died: 1797
Died: September 10
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... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.
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