A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that when the sole ambition of woman centres in beauty, and interest gives vanity additional force, perpetual rivalships should ensue? They are all running the same race, and would rise above the virtue of morals, if they did not view each other with a suspicious and even envious eye.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

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

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.