"A woman's entire education should be planned in relation to men. To please men, to be useful to them, to make herself loved and honored by them, to raise them when young, to care for them when grown, …"

"If there is any state in the world where a man can enjoy the full exercise of his faculties, it is the one where he is least dependent on others."

"A child who is spoiled is a child who is unhappy."

"Every man has a right to risk his own life in order to save it."

"I detest the great, their condition, their maxims, their vices, and I should detest them still more if I were one of them."