1
[Men] are incomprehensible animals... They walk about boasting of their wisdom, strength, and sovereignty, while they have not sense so much as to swallow an apple with the aid of an Eve to put it down their throats.Frances Wright
2
Ambition is the necessary spur of a great mind to great action; when acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity, or sours it with discontent.Frances Wright
3
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.Frances Wright
4
I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.Frances Wright
5
Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.Frances Wright
6
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.Frances Wright
7
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.Frances Wright
8
How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.Frances Wright
9
However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.Frances Wright
10
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.Frances Wright
11
Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.Frances Wright