Quotes by : Lady Sophia Fermor

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

Were we [Women] to express our conceptions of God, it wou'd never enter into the head of any one of us....

It must appear to every one (...) a matter of the greatest surprise, to observe the universal prevalence....

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

The Men, who have taken care to engross the affairs of Religion, as well as others, to their own management,....

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....

It is quite idle (...) to insist so much on bodily strength, as a necessary qualification to military....

(...) It is far from being true that all Women want courage, strength, or conduct to lead an army to....