“ But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? Mary Astell
“ Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. 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 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… Mary Astell
“ Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. 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… 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 Eye… Mary Astell
“ Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will g… 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
“ 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,… Mary Astell
“ We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd wha… Mary Astell
