The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. Mary Wollstonecraft Next Quote Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. - Mary Wollstonecraft Previous Quote 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