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

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

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.