Quotes by : Lady Sophia Fermor

What a wretched circle this poor way of reasoning among the Men draws them insensibly into. Why is learning....

Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.....

Then Cato is forced at last to own that the subjection we are kept under by that arrogant sex, is the....

Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediately....

There are some however more condescending, and gracious enough to confess, that many Women have wit and....

There will be great reason to suspect the Men of jealousy; and it cannot be rash to say, that their only....

why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of....

it appears that there is no other difference between Men and Us than what their tyrany has created, it....

I wou'd therefore exhort all my sex (...) to betake themselves to the improvement of their minds (...)....

the many absurd notions the Men are led into by custom: Tho' there is none more absurd, than that of....