” I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.” from The Dinner party by Colleen Keating

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One of the passionate visionary women on whose shoulders we stand today.
Learn more about Mary Wollstoncraft 1759 – 1797
who died during the birth of her daughter Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein)
Her voice a luminous candle
in a darkness of patriarchy
where laws claimed women
the property of men
marriage their tenuous security.
This spirited her struggle
her weapon always her pen
Mary wrote: ” I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.”
It took 200 years for Mary to be reclaimed  with a controversial statue  erected  in her honour.
A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft is a public sculpture commemorating
the 18th-century feminist writer and advocate Mary Wollstonecraft in
Newington Green, London.