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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.
Approximate author period: c. 1778 AD · early modern
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- Mary Wollstonecraft
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- Approximate author period: c. 1778 AD · early modern
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