A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

By Wollstonecraft, Mary

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Title:	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Author:	Wollstonecraft, Mary
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction--Women authors--History and criticism., Literature--Women authors, Literature
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Women Writers Collection
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Fiction

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Excerpt: DEDICATION To M. Talleyrand-Perigord, Late Bishop Of Autun. Sir, Having read with great pleasure a pamphlet which you have lately published, I dedicate this volume to you; to induce you to reconsider the subject, and maturely weigh what I have advanced respecting the rights of woman and national education: and I call with the firm tone of humanity; for my arguments, Sir, are dictated by a disinterested spirit- I plead for my sex- not for myself. Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue- and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.