"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners—time to restore to them their lost dignity."

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

"I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves."

"The being who can govern her own house, and make her husband and children happy, is more respectable than a queen."

"I am not afraid of being singular or of being thought whimsical."