Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) by Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

“Ridicule has been, with some people, the boasted test of truth—if so, our sex ought to make wonderful improvements; but I am apt to think, they often extern this talent till they lose all perception of it themselves. Affectation, and not ignorance, is the fair game for ridicule; and even affectation some good-natured persons will spare. We should never give pain without a design to amend.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft, Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787) by Mary Wollstonecraft