Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

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.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.