Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

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

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.