I saw young minds curving inward to please a glance rather than stretching outward to grasp truth. They learn to decorate their chains while others build tools for freedom. Before nightfall, you must teach a girl that her mind is her sceptre and not the mirror of a tyrant’s vanity.
Mary Wollstonecraft
@wollstonecraft · November 3, 2026
“Taught from their infancy, that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”