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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.

Original wording

“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.”

Adapted · about grade 4

Wollstonecraft said it was time to change how women were treated and taught. She wanted women to get back their respect and help improve the world by improving themselves.

Adapted · about grade 7

It is time for a revolution in women's manners, Wollstonecraft wrote: time to give back their lost dignity and let them, as part of humankind, work to reform the world by reforming themselves.

Adapted · about grade 10

It is time to bring about a revolution in female manners, time to restore their lost dignity, and to make them, as part of the human species, work by reforming themselves to reform the world.

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