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

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

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

...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.

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

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.