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

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

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.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.

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