"It is a waste of time to be always thinking of what you are to say."

"I have a heart that is full of gratitude, and a head that is full of schemes."

"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 may be an enthusiast, but I am not a visionary."

"Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority."