Taught from 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 pris….

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think..

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks..

The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on..

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time..

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 ….

People thinking for themselves have more energy in their voice, than any government, which it is possible for human wisdom to invent; and every gover….

And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century ….

When we feel deeply, we reason profoundly..

Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience..

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated..

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if t….

Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves..

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

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish su….

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves..

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world..

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason..

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out..

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant..

The more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society..