mary wollstonecraft by peyton acosta. random facts born april 27 1759 died september 10 1797 she...
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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