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Mary Wollstonecraft

"Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."

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"Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness."

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