“It has long since occurred to me that advice respecting behaviour, and all the various modes of preserving a good reputation, which have been so strenuously inculcated on the female world, were specious poisons that incrusting morality eat away at the substance” (Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pp. 135).

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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