Women as well as men ought to have the common appetites and passions of their nature, they are only brutal when unchecked by reason: but the obligation to check them is the duty of mankind, not a sexual duty.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; source text line 6067
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; source text line 6067
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