Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

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

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

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