“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
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Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.