Mary: "So typical a man of 'greatness' as you would speak such words."
David: "Such words? It's all based on pride, Mary. 'Pride must have a cause as well as an object.' If it is beauty in women that men desire, than this must be because it enhances his pride."
Mary: "But of course, God forbid (it MUST be a male deity for creating this monster) a woman's intelligence out weigh her beauty, after all 'if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.'
David: "It must b the same for women. If man does hold beauty so valuably than a woman with out this beauty (being that a woman's whole being should revolve around the happiness of man) shall also be without pride. 'then our own beauty becomes an object of pride, and deformity of humility.' "
Mary: "It is a mistake to assume woman base their pride merely on face-value such as man for beauty was always a given for us and never a source of merit.’her first wish should be to make herself respectable.' "
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Wollstonecraft, M. (1792). A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Retrieved
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