"The education of women has been so managed that the sex has been rendered an artificial, weak character, and, consequently, more or less useless members of society."

"Security is the very first characteristic of happiness."

"I have a soul that is too refined to be corrupted."

"Men are not more naturally brave than women, nor more naturally rational. They are only rendered so by education."

"I have been in love with a man of my own sex, and have found him as capricious as any of the other."