Mary+Wollstonecraft

 ♥ __Mary Wollstonecraft__ ♥ April 27, 1759-September 10, 1797 “The beginning is always today.” M.W      -Aisling Travers- pd. 4 media type="custom" key="3083530" width="98" height="101"  Dates of Mary Wollstonecraft’s life and where she worked… Mary Wollstonecraft was a revolutionary advocate of equal rights for women, and an inspiration for both the nineteenth-century and twentieth-century women's movements. Her career involved working for the rights of all people, whom she thought victims of a society that assigned people their roles, comforts, and satisfactions. Although growing up in a rough family, involving protecting her mother from her drunken father, she rose above this, to become known as a hero to women’s rights. ♥ Accomplishments and Beliefs of Mary Wollstonecraft… Mary Wollstonecraft had many beliefs and achievements which allowed her to go so far in supporting a cause that meant so much to her. Wollstonecraft being an English author and feminist strongly believed with the education of men and women. In Paris, where she lived with an American, Gilbert Imlay, during a majority of the French Revolution, she was close to many of the Revolution’s leading political figures. Her achievements have given a spark to modern sexuality and gender analysis, and the relationships between men and women. One of the major achievements included writing her //__Vindication__,// and taking chapters to the printer as she wrote them. She was a remarkable woman. In 1796, her achievements continued, when she published a travel book, which was about a trip to Sweden, in which her descriptions of another culture were full of feeling and emotion. Although falling in love with writer, William Godwin, they both continued to follow there dreams in making history. When Mary Wollstonecraft began pregnant, they both got married, but still continued living in separate apartments. One of her major beliefs was her work, and the passion she put forth towards it. Overall, Mary Wollstonecraft’s major achievements and beliefs involving publishing, A Vindication of the Rights, along with other books which argued for wider educational opportunities for women. ♥ Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft… “Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. ” // ~Mary Wollstonecraft   //

//__-A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman-__//

The works of Mary Wollstonecraft’s __ //A Vindication of the Rights of Woman// __ (1792), nineteenth-century feminism. ♥   Our Constitution and Bill of Rights are based on Mary Wollstonecraft’s works… // Mary Wollstonecraft was born to Elizabeth Dickson and Edward John Wollstonecraft on April 27th, 1759. Her family beginning as having high paying jobs slowly sunk on the economic scale due to her fathers drinking problem. The 19th Amendment of the United States Constitution supports Mary Wollstonecraft, in that she fought for the rights of the people. // Mary Wollstonecraft had supported this by writing  //__ A Vindication of the Rights of Woman __////in 1792. “ //// The right of citizens of the //// United States //// to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”; //is supporting Wollstonecraft’s idea during the 19th century, while fighting feminism. She was known as the first feminist. Mary Wollstonecraft’s act on fighting women’s rights, was later based on the 19th amendment of the United States Constitution Mary Wollstonecraft advocated the education and democratic rights for women. She was first and foremost a democrat, advocating universal suffrages opposed to political power only for the landed aristocracy. Wollstonecraft was an inspirational philosophe, who impacted the Bill of Rights and our constitution. ♥ Notebook Activity  J  // The notebook activity that will go along with Mary Wollstonecraft, will be taking a look at Mary Wollstonecraft’s quotes through like and then comparing them to women’s rights today, and overall society. // //  **Directions-** look at the below list of quotes all by Wollstonecraft, and pick 5 and then explain how they relate to today’s society whether it be women’s rights, or another aspect involving Wollstonecraft which is still present today. // You may also include your personal opinion and thoughts on the quote.   Hero Poster media type="custom" key="3117982" width="118" height="130"
 * “If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.”    ||
 * “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?”   ||
 * “In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.”   ||
 * “It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.”   ||
 * “It is time to affect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.”   ||
 * “Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.”   ||
 * “Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.”   ||
 * “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”   ||
 * “Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”   ||
 * “Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.”   ||
 * “The beginning is always today.”   ||
 * “Virtue can only flourish among equals.”   ||
 * “Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?”   ||
 * “Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.”   ||
 * “Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. ”  ||

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