Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.