Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft: “I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”

The goal of women's liberation is not domination or revenge — it is self-determination. To have power over your own life, decisions, and body is not a demand for superiority but for the basic dignity every human being deserves and that women had long been denied.

Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792, three years after the French Revolution promised liberty, equality, and fraternity to men. She directly challenged whether those ideals would extend to women, writing at a moment when radical ideas about human rights were reshaping European political thought.

English writer and philosopher whose 1792 work A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is considered the founding text of feminist philosophy. She argued that women's perceived inferiority was the result of lack of education rather than any natural deficiency.