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

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

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.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.