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The marriage state is certainly that in which women, generally speaking, can be most useful; but I am far from thinking that a woman, once married, ought to consider the engagement as indissoluble (especially if there be no children to reward her for sacrificing her feelings) in case her husband merits neither her love, nor esteem. Esteem will often supply the place of love; and prevents a woman from being wretched, though it may not make her happy. The magnitude of a sacrifice ought always to bear some proportion to the utility in view; and for a woman to live with a man, for whom she can cherish neither affection nor esteem, or even be of any use to him, excepting in the light of a house-keeper, is an abjectness of condition, the enduring of which no concurrence of circumstances can ever make a duty in the sight of God or just men. If indeed she submits to it merely to be maintained in idleness, she has no right to complain bitterly of her fate; or to act, as a person of independent character might, as if she had a title to disregard general rules.But the misfortune is, that many women only submit in appearance, and forfeit their own respect to secure their reputation in the world.
The marriage state is certainly that in which women, generally speaking, can be most useful; but I am far from thinking that a woman, once married, ought to consider the engagement as indissoluble (especially if there be no children to reward her for sacrificing her feelings) in case her husband merits neither her love, nor esteem. Esteem will often supply the place of love; and prevents a woman from being wretched, though it may not make her happy. The magnitude of a sacrifice ought always to bear some proportion to the utility in view; and for a woman to live with a man, for whom she can cherish neither affection nor esteem, or even be of any use to him, excepting in the light of a house-keeper, is an abjectness of condition, the enduring of which no concurrence of circumstances can ever make a duty in the sight of God or just men. If indeed she submits to it merely to be maintained in idleness, she has no right to complain bitterly of her fate; or to act, as a person of independent character might, as if she had a title to disregard general rules.
But the misfortune is, that many women only submit in appearance, and forfeit their own respect to secure their reputation in the world.
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Mary Wollstonecraft. Maria. 1798. Ed. Janet Todd. London: Penguin Classics, 1992.
(The paragraphs come from pages 116-117. The material on page 116 ends with the words, "The magnitude of a sacrifice ought always to bear some.")
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Wollstonecraft argues that "a woman, once married, ought to consider the engagement as indissoluble (especially if there be no children to reward her for sacrificing her feelings) in case her husband merits neither her love, nor esteem."
A woman should not feel that she must remain married if she neither loves nor respects her husband (116).
A noted early feminist felt that women who did not love or respect their husbands gave up too much for the supposed benefits of marriage: "[M]any women [. . .] forfeit their own respect to secure their reputation in the world" (117).
Wollstonecraft claims that a woman married to a man she cannot admire endures "an abjectness of condition."
In marriage, Wollstonecraft observes, "Esteem will often supply the place of love; and prevents a woman from being wretched, though it may not make her happy" (117).
