 Considering the care and anxiety a woman must have about a child before it comes into the world, it seems to me, by a natural right, to belong to her.  Letters to Imlay - Page 24by Mary Wollstonecraft - 1879 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - Women - 1798 - 414 pages
...Confidering the care and anxiety a woman muft have about a child before it comes into the world, it feems to me, by a -natural right, to belong to her. When men get immerfed in the world, they feem to lofe all fenfations, excepting thofe necelTary to continue or produce... | |
 | G. R. Stirling Taylor - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 232 pages
...rights such a callous father should be permitted to claim over the child which will soon be born. " Considering the care and anxiety a woman must have...it seems to me by a natural right to belong to her. Amongst the feathered race, whilst the hen keeps the young warm, her mate stays by to cheer her ; but... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - Political Science - 1992 - 394 pages
...her very few reflections on "natural rights" and their relationship to obligations or responsibility: Considering the care and anxiety a woman must have...those necessary to continue or produce life! — Are those the privileges of reason? Amongst the feathered race, whilst the hen keeps the young warm, her... | |
 | Hilda L. Smith - History - 1998 - 428 pages
...manage her family, educate her children, and assist her neighbors."29 In a letter, she remarked that "Considering the care and anxiety a woman must have...world, it seems to me, by a natural right, to belong to her."30 Wollstonecraft tried to show, however, that difference need not inevitably lead to hierarchy... | |
 | Susan C. Greenfield - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 236 pages
...subject of custody had been on Wollstonecraft's mind at least since 1794, when she lamented to Imlay: "Considering the care and anxiety a woman must have...seems to me, by a natural right, to belong to her. . . . [But] it is sufficient for man to condescend to get a child, in order to claim it. — A man... | |
 | Barbara Taylor - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 356 pages
...her children, and the juridical and political rights women need to meet their maternal obligations. 'Considering the care and anxiety a woman must have...seems to me, by a natural right, to belong to her,' Wollstonecraft wrote to Imlay during her pregnancy: When men get immersed in the world, they seem to... | |
 | Harriet Devine, Harriet Devine Jump - Feminism and literature - 2003 - 456 pages
...Imlay dated January 1794 - when she was nearing the end of the second trimester of pregnancy - mentions "the care and anxiety a woman must have about a child before it comes into the world", as well as evidence that she was conscious of the effect of her pregnant body on observers: "Finding... | |
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