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.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.