[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.

The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

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

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

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

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.