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.

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

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

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.