I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

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?

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.