"Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."

"The heart of man is not so much depraved by nature, as warped by custom."

"I am not a creature of circumstances; I am a creature of principle."

"I am more than ever convinced that it is not by reason that we can expect to influence mankind."

"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."