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

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.

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 birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.