"Women are rendered feeble and wretched by a variety of causes, some of which are natural, but more are artificial."

"Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority."

"I have a soul that is too refined to be corrupted."

"The being who can govern her own house, and make her husband and children happy, is more respectable than a queen."

"To be more precise, a woman should be educated to be a rational creature, and then she will be a good wife and mother."