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; and found it more convenient to indulge his depraved appetites, and pay an exorbitant price for absolution, than listen to the suggestions of reason, and work out his own salvation: in a word, was not the separation of religion from morality the work of the priests...?

...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.

When a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, be termed a left-handed marriage.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.