English - Writer | November 12, 1666 - May 11, 1731
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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Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
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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.
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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.
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God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
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He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.
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If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
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If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
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It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
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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.
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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.
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