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How many women thus waste life away the prey of discontent, who might…

Quote byMary Wollstonecraft · 1759–1797

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 9.

English (original)

How many women thus waste life away the prey of discontent, who might have practised as physicians, regulated a farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their own industry, instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at first gave lustre.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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