"Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful …"

"All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratificatio…"

"I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take …"

"I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted."

"Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and …"

"The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our sla…"

"There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings."

"Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and … our views about the duties of men and the duties of w…"

"One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more exten…"

"At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe disci…"