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.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.
I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.
