In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
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.
Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
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.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
