As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

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

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.