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

...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.

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

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

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

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.