Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

I must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject home to reason-to that sluggish reason, which supinely takes opinions on trust, and obstinately supports them to spare itself the labour of thinking.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

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

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!