[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.

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.

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

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. 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. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.

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

We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.