Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.


The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (ed. NYU Press, 1989) - ISBN: 9780814792308

Mary Shelley Quotes

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning,...

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning,...

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning,...

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning,...