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?

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

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