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Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and...more

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Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

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Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and ...more

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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly s...more

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Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle ...more

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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.

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Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowlegde of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softn...more

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If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are ...more

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Let their faculties have room to unfold, and their virtues to gain strength, and then determine where the whole sex must stand in the intellectual sca...more

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I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of min...more

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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - and make them, as a part of the human species, labo...more

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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

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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...more

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[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of ...more

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Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a r...more