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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

In the end, the women can be very rebellious, and very capable and all of that, but if she depends on a man economically, she has few possibilities.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.