I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at last that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church.

Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection.

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.

Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.