"The preposterous distinctions of rank, which render civilization a curse, by hardening one part of the human species, and softening the other, should be abolished."

"To be more precise, a woman should be educated to be a rational creature, and then she will be a good wife and mother."

"The being who can govern her own house, and make her husband and children happy, is more respectable than a queen."

"I have a soul that is too refined to be corrupted."

"The grand source of female folly and vice has ever appeared to me to arise from a mistaken estimate of sexual character."