Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

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

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.