"The preposterous distinctions of rank, which render civilization a curse, by hardening one part of the human species, and softening the other, should be abolished."

"The civil rights of woman, have been very little attended to, nay, almost universally disregarded."

"I am not born to tread in the beaten track."

"The grand source of female folly and vice has ever appeared to me to arise from a mistaken estimate of sexual character."

"It is a melancholy truth that among the higher classes, the only system of education adopted is calculated to make women more dependent and helpless."