"I have no other wish than to live in peace and obscurity."

"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."

"Few have been taught to think, and fewer still to reason."

"Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner, when they try to secure the good conduct of women by attempting to keep them always in a state of childhood."

"I am not a saint, but a sinner."