If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.