"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…"

"I have a heart that is ready to burst with the tenderest affection, and a head that is full of the most exalted notions."

"The grand source of female folly and vice has ever appeared to me to arise from a mistaken estimate of sexual character."

"I am not a creature of impulse, but of deliberation."

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