"The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart."

"Many are the causes that conspire to render women more dependent than men; and one, not the least, is the false system of education, which is adopted for their sex."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

"I have a soul that is too noble to be enslaved."

"A woman who is not a mother, is not a woman."