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.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

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

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.