How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

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

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

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.