 Wollstonecraft 's work has also had an effect on feminism outside the academy in recent years . Ayaan Hirsi Ali , a political writer and former Muslim who is critical of Islam in general and its dictates regarding women in particular , cited the Rights of Woman in her autobiography Infidel and wrote that she was " inspired by Mary Wollstonecraft , the pioneering feminist thinker who told women they had the same ability to reason as men did and deserved the same rights " . British writer Caitlin Moran , author of the best @-@ selling How to Be a Woman , described herself as " half Wollstonecraft " to the New Yorker . She has also inspired more widely . Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen , the Indian economist and philosopher who first identified the missing women of Asia , draws repeatedly on Wollstonecraft as a political philosopher in The Idea of Justice . 
