"The desire of being always admired is the reason why women are so often useless."

"The being who will not reason is a bigot; the being who cannot reason is a fool; and the being who dares not reason is a slave."

"I have been in love with a man of my own sex, and have found him as capricious as any of the other."

"I am a solitary being, who has no ties to bind her to the world."

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."