Sublime

solidity of those women

fair land—let's call it 'Feminisia,'"

In late 18th-century England, women had very few rights. Philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft was frustrated that this lack of rights limited a woman’s ability to be independent and make choices on how to live her life. Instead of arguing, however, for why women should get rights, she recognized that she had to demonstrate the value that these rights wo

“I had much rather starve in England, a free woman than be a slave for the best man that ever breathed upon the American continent.”

MAN!

"It will be like a nunnery under an abbess—a peaceful, harmonious sisterhood."

1881, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony published the first volume of their monumental History of Suffrage, they put Wollstonecraft at the top of their list of heroic women “[w]hose earnest lives and fearless words, in demanding political rights for women have been, in the preparation of these pages, a constant inspiration.”

"We find also that in spite of the advance of democracy and the increase of wealth, that there is still unrest and sometimes combat."

"But they look—why, this is a CIVILIZED country!" I protested. "There must be men."