“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.”

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

“Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.”

“I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that th...”