"Women are from their very Infancy debarr'd those advantages [of education] with the want of which they are afterwards reproached, and nursed up in those vices with which will hereafter be upbraided them."

"Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit."

"If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?"

". . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice."

"There is not anything so excellent, but some will carp at it. . ."