 Her great solace in reading and finding inspiration in it sheds insight on her opinions regarding women being discouraged from spending their time with books as she writes in "First Duty of Women" "Let them undertake, then, the duty of providing for their own mental progress, as they must bear the consequences of neglecting it".In these articles, she also states that women should be responsible for earning their own living and that to marry solely on the basis of money was demeaning.Taylor strongly negated the idea that women were bound in duty to sacrifice themselves for others, and criticized Charlotte Brontë for inducing the notion that a working life was not meant for all women.