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Mary Wollstonecraft

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Freedom

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Mary Wollstonecraft suggests that some women harm their own dignity by focusing too much on immediate pleasures instead of striving for long-term freedom. She argues that this short-sightedness leads them to reject the very independence they lack the moral strength to pursue.

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