I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.

Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the domestic brutes, whom they first played with.

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neither been the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.