"I have a heart that is too tender to be wounded."

"Pleasure is the business of women, according to the present modification of society, and while it continues to be so, little can be expected from such weak beings."

"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 child of nature, who has been taught to think; and I will not resign my birthright for a mess of pottage."

"I perceive that the most respectable women are the most unhappy."