That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.

If each hair on our head is accounted for

Without the nourishment of the soul, there is no strength of spirit.

I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.

The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are.

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.