The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?