"Consider, I entreat you, what much more forcible reasons sound philosophy can produce to expand the capacities of woman, than those which are currently urged to repress them."

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

"Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time."

"The mind, in order to be strong, must be free."

"The being who can govern her own house, and make her husband and children happy, is more respectable than a queen."