“Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.”

“We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.”

“[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.”

“Are we not to call Christ ours because we have not made him but only received him? Again, if we are the makers of things that are called ours, then we must have made our eyes, we must have made our hands, we must have made our feet, unless eyes, hands and feet are not to be called ours.”

“Shall we not spend our immortal life together? Surely, surely, we have ransomed one another, with all this woe!”

“All we have of freedomAll we use or knowThis our fathers bought for usLong and long ago”