How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
I have before observed, that men ought to maintain the women whom they have seduced. (8.30)
Wollstonecraft believes that if a young man seduces a young woman and has sex with her before marriage, the law should force him either to marry or to take care of this young woman financially. Having sex before marriage would ruin a girl's reputation in Wollstonecraft's time, and she maintains that the young man should be held just as responsible as the young woman.