Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.

The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

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

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.