Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

Women becoming, consequently, weakerthan they ought to behave not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affectioneither destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity.

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

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?