Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Women, I allow, may have different duties to fulfil; but they are human duties, and the principles that should regulate the discharge of them, I sturdily maintain, must be the same.”
- Date
- 1792
Meaning of “Women, I allow, may have different duties to…”
Different roles do not require different moral standards; Wollstonecraft argues for common principles of responsibility and virtue.
Where does it come from?
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; the passage rejects a separate moral standard built around sex rather than shared human duties.
