Mary Astell Quotes - BrainyQuote

English - Writer November 12, 1666 - May 11, 1731

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.

Good You World Garden

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

Men Women Born Free

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

Life Life Is Too Short Short Matters

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Truth Truth Is Strong Will Prevail

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.

Nature God Fly Own

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

Power People Treat Get

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.

Business Mind Conversation Body

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Women Woman Husband Design

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Man Wife Respect Sex

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'

God Women Nothing Reason

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

Sex Will Always Just

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Education Ignorance Foundation Up

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

Heart Head Atheism Seat

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.

Love World Action Noise

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

She Only Mean Deceived

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.

Love Eyes Wisdom God

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Women Want Women Are Those

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

You Service Reflection Serious

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.

Love Women Wise Enough

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

Great Value Stand Know

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.

Wisdom Men Women Said

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

I Am Religion Christian Rebellion

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

Best Good Think Opinion

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

Love Best Think Pleasure

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

God Design End Own

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 give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Knowledge Truth Passion Woman

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