I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

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

... wealth and female softness equally tend to debase mankind!