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.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

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.

As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.