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.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

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

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.