In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

However with the emergence of the feminist movement at the turn of the twentieth century Wollstonecraft's advocacy of women's equality and critiques of conventional femininity became increasingly important. : /ˈwʊlstən. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) in which Mary Wollstonecraft argues that women are not naturally inferior to men but appear to be only because they lack education.