"If children are to be educated to understand the true principles of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot; and the love of mankind, from which an orderly train of virtues spring, can only be prod…"

"The conduct of a woman, as well as that of a man, ought to be regulated by her reason."

"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world."

"To be useful is more honorable than to be ornamental."

"I have a soul that is too proud to stoop to any meanness."