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You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.
Mary Wollstonecraft
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Writer and philosopher
Letter to Everina Wollstonecraft (7 November 1787)

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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Letter to Everina Wollstonecraft (7 November 1787)
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