“Toda la historia atestigua que el hombre ha sometido a la mujer a su voluntad, la ha utilizado como medio para promover su gratificación egoísta, para atender a sus placeres sensuales, para ser instrumental en la promoción de su comodidad; pero nunca ha deseado elevarla a ese rango para el que ella fue creada. Ha hecho todo lo que ha podido para degradar y esclavizar su mente; y ahora mira con triunfo la ruina que ha hecho, y dice: el ser que ha herido tan profundamente es su inferior.”

Carta 2ª, 17 de julio de 1837. Página 11.
Cartas sobre la igualdad de los sexos y la condición de la mujer (1837)
Original: «All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior».