Question 1

What is the best book to start with?

Accepted Answer

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, the introduction and chapter 2 The programme is stated at the start, and the cage passage shows the education she thinks produces blind obedience.

Question 2

What is the most famous quote?

Accepted Answer

This library does not measure fame, and it does not rank lines by how often they are shared. The first line it files for Mary Wollstonecraft that is not marked Questionable or Misattributed is “I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.” (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, chapter 4, Well attested).

Question 3

What is the most misquoted line?

Accepted Answer

None of the lines this library files for Mary Wollstonecraft is marked Misattributed or Questionable. That is a fact about these cards, not a certificate that every popular sentence is theirs.

Question 4

What is one key idea, in a sentence?

Accepted Answer

The gilt cage: An education that makes beauty the only sceptre shapes the mind to the body and calls the prison a power.