Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), "Matrimony", p.Her sphere of action is not large, and if she is not taught to look into her own heart, how trivial are her occupations and pursuits! What little arts engross and narrow her mind! Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world and this is not a woman's province in a married state.Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason… Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed, because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavour to settle that power on a Divine right, which will not bear the investigation of reason. No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Quotes Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world. 1.1 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792).
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