A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Women have come a long way. And yet…

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Intervention of the Sabine Women by Jacques-Louis David, 1799 (public domain - Wikipedia)

“To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing, and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.” — Søren Kierkegaard, 1845

In 1816, stuck indoors during what was known as the “Year Without a Summer,” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the second wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, penned one of the all-time horror classics: Frankenstein.

More than 200 years later, to read that book is to understand human nature. But it is all the more astounding when we consider that she was a youth of only 18 when she wrote it.

Here we have a young woman who is a deep thinker about intellect and hubris, good and evil; an author whose writing was exquisite and w…