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?

The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

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

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.