I've admired Mary Wollstonecraft since the day I first encountered her and her great treatise, A Vindication of the Rights of Women. A recent article by Carlin Romano in the Chronicle of Higher Education (7/15/2005, p. B11) reminded me yet again why she's so wonderful. The article reviews a new biography of her available now entitled Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft. A great quote from Wollstonecraft, who described her struggle to create "a new genus of human being" through her own life, is given in the article:
"I am not born to tread in the beaten path...The peculiar bent of my character pushes me on."
Great words of wisdom for any woman, and particularly for women who would forge ahead in the worlds of engineering and science.
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