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. Men are spoilt by frankness, I believe, yet I must tell you that I love you better than I supposed I did, when I promised to love you forever....I feel it thrilling through my frame, giving and promising pleasure.

An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannotbe controverted.

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

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

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.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.