![]() ![]() And how can women be expected to co-operate unless she knows why she ought to be virtuous? unless freedom strengthens her reason till she comprehends her duty, and see in what manner is connected with her real good. In it, she provides clear reasons for her focus on the importance of women’s education.Ĭontending for the rights of women, my main argument is built upon this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge and virtue for truth must be common to all, or it will be inefficacious with respect to its influence on general practice. Mary Wollstonecraft appended a letter to Tallyrand to the beginning of her A Vindication of the Rights of Women that outlines the fundamentals of the arguments that follow in the text. Found in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ![]()
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