The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

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

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

...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.