The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

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

There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly even when founded on a rock, if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or pride