In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should g… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Renoncer à sa liberté c'est renoncer à sa qualité d'homme, aux droits de l'humanité, même à ses devoirs.

Thus the whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them, to educate them when young, to care for them when grown, to council them, to console them, and to make life agreeable and sweet to them — these are the duties of women at all times, and should be taught them from their infancy.

Hard to rouse and hard to restrain: that had been a constant trait in my character.