Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves.

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

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

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.

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty would be equally conspicuous.

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