It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what was in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with

I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

I love 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.

Taught from their 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.

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.