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

"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."

"I am not a slave to any system, nor a devotee to any sect."

"I am a solitary being, who has no ties to bind her to the world."

"Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner, when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood."