“Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediately find the spaniel metamorphosed into a tyger, or has not reason to envy the lesser misery of a bond-slave to a merciless tyrant?” — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“And the differences thence arising [between the constitution of men and women] are no ways sufficient to argue more natural strength in the one… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“If from immemorable time, the Men had been so little envious, and so very impartial, as to do justice to our talents, by admitting… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“I shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men are weak… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“it appears that there is no other difference between Men and Us than what their tyrany has created, it will then appear how unjust… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“Let us treat Women as our equals, (says [the 'blubblering dotard' xD Cato]) and they will immediately want to become our mistresses." 'Tis Cato… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd qualify them to attack or defend.… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“the many absurd notions the Men are led into by custom: Tho' there is none more absurd, than that of the great difference they… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediately find the spaniel metamorphosed into a tyger,… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university chairs, it… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share in with… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“There are some however more condescending, and gracious enough to confess, that many Women have wit and conduct; but yet they are of opinion,… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.” — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“Were we [Women] to express our conceptions of God, it wou'd never enter into the head of any one of us to describe him… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
“IT is enough for the Men to find a thing establish'd to make them believe it well grounded. In all countries we are seen… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share
