The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.
[F]or as Socrates says that a wise man is a citizen of the world, so I thought that a wise woman was equally at liberty to range through every station or degree of men, to fix her choice wherever she pleased.
I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man's power for life only from a present capricious inclination.
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