"I have always been of opinion, that the only way to make women rational creatures, and free citizens, is to allow them to pursue their own interest, and to follow the bent of their own inclinations."

"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 they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable …"

"It is a happy thing for women, that there is a kind of fashion in their ideas, as well as in their dress."

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

"The grand source of female folly and vice has ever appeared to me to arise from a mistaken estimate of sexual character."