Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

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 endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society.

...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.