"In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason."

"I have been in love with a man of my own sex, and have found him as capricious as any of the other."

"Many are the causes that conspire to render women more dependent than men; and one, not the least, is the false system of education, which is adopted for their sex."

"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world."

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