Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

Weakness may excite tenderness, and gratify the arrogant pride of man; but the lordly caresses of a protector will not gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be respected. Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

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

Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet

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