Mary Wollstonecraft was a famous female writer who wrote about her beliefs and ideas that she had about societal standards and the injustice woman faced during her time period. One of her writing that expressed her views on women in society was “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” This was a letter she wrote to a French politician discussing how she felt about the national education system and how a woman’s place in society is completely different from a man’s place. Wollstonecraft believed that women could only achieve liberation through the means of a good quality education since they have always lived secluded lives while men had the center stage. She wanted to see women in a position that would further the advancement of mankind. She stated in her letter that “I believe to be the cause of virtue, and leads me to long to see woman’s place in the world enable her to advance the progress of the glorious principles that give a substance to morality, rather than holding them back” (Wollstonecraft 1). According to her point of view, if women are not adequately educated to act as men’s equals, then men themselves will not become more honorable or intelligent. Furthermore, she mentions how women are only seen as a means of pleasure and romance instead of human beings, which hinders them from reaching their full potential. Wollstonecraft sees these kinds of issues as a problem because it was delaying France from being an enlightened and prosperous nation. She believed that France needed intelligent women to hold places in government, and they needed to have legal rights just like men had. Furthermore, she didn’t want these same inequalities to affect future generations. After reading this letter, I could tell that Wollstonecraft’s discourse community included revolutionaries. She was a female revolutionist that was admired for her work during the French Revolution. She was adamant in arguing that women deserved basic human rights. She wasn’t afraid to mention the flaws of society, which made her well respected by other women who supported her.