Mary Astell Quotes

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best. - Mary Astell

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

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

Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another? - Mary Astell

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind. - Mary Astell

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

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess. - Mary Astell

We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin. - 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 what is the true Way to Happiness. - Mary Astell

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