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

    Mary Wollstonecraft: In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
    Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.37