It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Mary Wollstonecraft
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Queen Victoria said, “It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world.” This quote reflects many of the early feminist ideas about equal rights for women. Queen Victoria was an early advocate for women in the workplace, in politics, and in public life. She believed that it was not enough for women to simply demand equality with men. Instead, she hoped that women would work to improve themselves so that they could change society for the better.

Source: A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman

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