It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. — Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

— Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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