“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings
and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to
childish state throw off their gaudy hereditary trappings: and if then women do
not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less
mind than man.”
Wollstonecraft, 264
“If none with Vengeance yet thy Crimes pursue,
Or give thy manifold Affronts their due;
If Limbs unbroken, Skin without a Stain,
Unwhipt, unblanketed, unkick’d, unslain;
That wtetched little Carcass you retain:…”
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Line 66-70
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