"Few men have risen to any great eminence in learning, who have not received something like a regular education. Why are women expected to surmount difficulties that men are not equal to?"
— Mary Wollstonecraft
"If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?"
— Mary Wollstonecraft , 18th Century Women’s rights activist
