... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

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

Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason.