I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

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