"Consider, I entreat you, what much more forcible reasons sound philosophy can produce to expand the capacities of woman, than those which are currently urged to repress them."

"I am a woman, and I have a right to think."

"It is a melancholy truth; yet a truth it is, that women, as well as men, without a proper education, will ever be a prey to their prejudices."

"I am not a mere machine, but a thinking being."

"I am more than ever convinced that it is not by reason that we can expect to influence mankind."