"The desire of being always admired is the reason why women are so often useless."

"Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous…"

"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."

"The common source of all the follies which degrade women, is the inexperience which they are condemned to acquire, till they are mothers of families."

"I have a soul that is too noble to be enslaved."