Quotes by Mary Astell

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the...

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If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have...

#Mary Astell

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

#Mary Astell

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

#Mary Astell

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden,...

#Mary Astell

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her...

#Mary Astell

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all...

#Mary Astell

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always...

#Mary Astell

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of...

#Mary Astell

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and...

#Mary Astell