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

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

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.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

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

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.