"I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! All my feelings are on the tortured rack; but I will not be a fool, if I can help it."

"I have ever been of opinion, that the very word obedience, is not applicable to rational beings."

"The beginning is always today."

"Marriage has been termed a splendid slavery."

"The education of women has been so managed that the sex has been rendered an artificial, weak character, and, consequently, more or less useless members of society."