"It is difficult for me to be patient with the folly of mankind."

"It is a happy thing for women, that there is a kind of fashion in their ideas, as well as in their dress."

"The being who can govern itself, has an empire which the most despotic monarch cannot boast."

"Contending for the rights of woman, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge…"

"Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner, when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood."