When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under the influence of their senses, pay them, do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, or to become the friends of the fellow creatures who find amusement in their society.

I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.

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

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.

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