It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

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

The conduct and manners of women, in fact, evidently prove that their minds are not in a healthy state; for, like the flowers which are planted in too rich a soil, strenght state; usefulness are sacrificed to beauty; and the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, long before the season when they ought to have arrived at maturity.

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

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

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.