And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.

The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.

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

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

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.