Mary Wollstonecraft — "I have been so much accustomed to hear of the rights of men, that I begin to ask…"

"The woman who has only been taught to please will soon find that her power is of short duration."

"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."

"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…"

"The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is to be hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger."

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