...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.

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

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

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

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

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