Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.

•Novelista britânica, considerada a pioneira do feminismo, porque virtue can only flourish among equals.

•Compara a situação das mulheres à dos escravos, com ambos a precisarem de emancipação ou libertação: slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.