This is Mary Wollstonecraft striking a powerful point:
Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
(Quoted from page 52 of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Marry Wollstonecraft. London: Walter Scott. 1891.)
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How right she is..I'm a woman that I have lived most of my life alone..men do not find me beautiful, and the ones that got near me were not worth to worry about and also were the ones that the attractive girls did not want..so why should I settle for the ones rejected by the pretty girls ? because of that I became very hostile towards men they only value and also are ready to help the woman with a pretty face and the ones like me I found that I have to work twice as hard to get what the idle girls with good looks they get in a very easy way..
Posted by: Anamaria | January 19, 2010 at 04:53 AM