I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.