Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.