"How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?"

"A woman who is not a mother, is not a woman."

"I perceive that the most respectable women are the most unhappy."

"I am not a saint, but a sinner."

"I have been so much accustomed to hear of the rights of men, that I begin to ask, what are the rights of women?"