Modesty, defined by Mary Wollstonecraft

In her epoch-making book, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women", instead of the perceived view of her as a militant feminist, Ms. Wollstonecraft promotes the virtue of modesty. She writes "The woman who has dedicated her time to pursuits purely intellectual; and whose affections have been exercised by humane plans of usefulness, must have more purity of mind than the ignorant beings whose time & thoughts have been occupied by gay pleasures, or schemes to conquer hearts." 

If the word "intellectual" is replaced by "spiritual", she could well be describing Miranda, a fictional female paragon of Christianity in William Law's "A Serious Call to a Devout & Holy Life." This view also finds an echo in Zena Hitz's "Lost in Thought - The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life". 

Ms. Woolf also states that till men are more chaste, women will continue to be immodest, putting the onus squarely on the men. She writes about men, with debauched minds, coolly bringing forward indecent allusions or obscene witticisms in the presence of fellow creatures comparing them to lewd jokers setting the table in a roar.

She also berates women for being too familiar with each other, which leads to that gross degree of familiarity that renders the marriage state unhappy. She naively thought it was due to their minds being uncultivated in her time. Sadly, even though women are more supposedly more "educated" now, their minds remaining quite uncultivated is the "new normal" now!

It may be mentioned in passing that in traditional Hinduism, modesty is a prized virtue, protecting its possessor from the sin of vanity. In Quran (24:30), also both men & women are enjoined to turn their eyes away from temptation & to preserve their chastity. The Bible says, (1 Timothy 2:9), "women should adorn themselves modestly."