It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

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 two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.

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

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.