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

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

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

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