The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

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

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every government not aware of this sacred truth will, at some period, be suddenly overturned.

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!