"The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to att…"

"Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."

"I would fain persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body."

"Pleasure is the business of women, according to the present modification of society, and while it continues to be so, little can be expected from such weak beings."

"A woman who has been taught to think will always be a formidable opponent."