"Consider, I entreat you, what much more forcible reasons sound philosophy can produce to expand the capacities of woman, than those which are currently urged to repress them."

"Contending for the rights of woman, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge…"

"The desire of being always in a crowd, of being always seen, always admired, is a sure mark of a little mind."

"The most respectable women are the most oppressed."

"To be more precise, a woman should be educated to be a rational creature, and then she will be a good wife and mother."