"A great many women and men, too, make a point of never thinking about a subject without having taken a side first."

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

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

"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."

"I am not a creature of circumstances; I am a creature of principle."