daily telegraph

Wollstonecraft lists all the qualities men think desirable in a woman (making use of Rousseau, in this respect), from passivity, weakness, lassitude, and dependency to frivolity, a fondness for dress, and a dislike of serious purpose, and declares that if such qualities are indeed natural, then women could simply be left alone to allow them to unfold. But this is not the case; on the contrary, women are subject to rigid discipline in order that these qualities can be cultivated.