Mary Wollstonecraft
/Overview
Mary Wollstonecraft born Spitalfields, London April 27, 1759 (d. 1797). British feminist pioneer, anarchist who opposed all war and violence; author of radical Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792).
Quotations
"Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished." (Vindication of the Rights of Women, pp. 89-90; 1797 portrait by Opie, Wikipedia)