The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.

It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.

...trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.

I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.