All Mary Astell Quotes
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
Mary Astell
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.
Mary Astell
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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
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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
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Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
Mary Astell
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We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
Mary Astell
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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
Mary Astell
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Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
Mary Astell
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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
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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
Mary Astell
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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
Mary Astell
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The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.
Mary Astell
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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
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If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Mary Astell
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Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
Mary Astell
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