When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.

I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!