“ The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. ”

“ Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. ”

“ Virtue can only flourish among equals. ”

“ Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. ”

“ No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ”

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

“ Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. ”

“ If women be educated for dependence that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop? ”

“ I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. ”

“ The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. ”