Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly.

...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.