"It is time to effect a revolution in female manners – time to restore to them their lost dignity – and make them, as a part of the human species, labour by reforming themselves to reform the world."

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

"The woman who has not been taught to respect herself, will not respect others."

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

"In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason."