But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but their very selves, her imagination was occupied with melancholy earnestness to trace the mazes of misery, through which so many wretches must have passed to this gloomy receptacle of disjointed souls, to the grand source of human corruption.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

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