How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
But in order to render their private virtue a public benefit, they must have a civil existence in the state, married or single. (9.28)
Wollstonecraft insists that if women are going to have a positive impact on the world, they need to have some sort of presence in the public sphere, whether married or single. They can't just keep spending their whole lives being wives or spinsters and nothing else.