"This is precisely the point at which I aim. I do not wish [women] to have power over men, but over themselves" (Wollstonecraft 63 ). Wollstonecraft made this statement in response to Roseau dictating that if society "[Educated] women love men..." (Wollstonecraft 63), women would resemble the male sex and then have less power over men. Instead of succumbing to men, Wollstonecraft emphasized how education could elevate women to an equal status in society. Following ideas similar to the Tao Te Ching and the Art of War, Wollstonecraft serves education as a tool of discipline for women who can use it to help them rise in society. Wollstonecraft points out in his introduction that "one of the causes [of the problem of women sacrificing their usefulness and strength to the attributes of beauty] is a false system of education..." (Wollstonecraft 6), and how reform and a push for women to better educate themselves and look beyond what currently exists will help them achieve a higher status in society; thus giving them their own independence. As Wollstonecraft dictates: “It follows, then, I think, that from childhood women must either be shut up like the Oriental princes, or so educated as to be able to think and act for themselves” (Wollstonecraft).