"Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man."
"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves."
"A woman who has only been taught to please will soon find her charms fade and herself forgotten."
"The education of women has of late been more attended to than formerly; yet they are still reckoned a frivolous sex."
"I am not fond of the idea of confining women to their families perpetually."