Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

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.