Women could be better citizens, human beings, and above all mothers for the children they have or the children to come. “Strengthen the feminine spirit by enlarging it, and blind obedience will cease.” Wollstonecraft uses her specific style to manipulate her reading audience, which consists of men. She wants them to imagine a world, an America, where women can be in balance with a man without being inferior to him, as many men think. ““The man who can be content to live with a pretty and useful companion who has no wit has lost in voluptuous gratifications the taste for more refined pleasures; he never felt the calm, refreshing satisfaction. . . .to be loved by someone who could understand him. Gender equality could be beneficial for marriage, for education, for society. By writing these proclamations, Wollstonecraft wants to persuade men to believe that a woman deserves her rights, that she demands comparably what men do, and that receiving these opportunities can guarantee greater success in the future . “It is vain to expect virtue from women as long as they are not to a certain extent independent of