The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

One could judge the degree of civilization of a country by the social and political position of its women

Any civilized administration, however organized, prefers its own good to that of the people.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

It is known that the best nations have always been those which concede the greatest amount of liberty to women.