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

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

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

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.

To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.