The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.

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

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

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

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.