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.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

Make them free, and they will quickly become wise and virtous, as men become more so; for the improvement must be mutual, or the injustice which one half of the human race are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps under his feet

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on, and the current will run with destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force.

Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.