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Mary Astell
Profession : Writer
Birth : November 12, 1666
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
Mary Astell
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
Mary Astell
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
Mary Astell
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
Mary Astell
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
Mary Astell
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
Mary Astell
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
Mary Astell
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
Mary Astell
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
Mary Astell
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?
Mary Astell
He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.
Mary Astell
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
Mary Astell
Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
Mary Astell
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.
Mary Astell
We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.
Mary Astell
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
Mary Astell
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
Mary Astell
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
Mary Astell
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
Mary Astell
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