"The heart of man is not so much depraved by nature, as warped by custom."

"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…"

"In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason."

"The beginning is always today."

"I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! All my feelings are on the tortured rack; but I will not be a fool, if I can help it."