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" If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey. "
Mary Astell
Woman
She
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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. "
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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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" Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. "
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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. "
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" How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? "
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" Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. "
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" God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him. "
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" '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. "
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" Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds. "
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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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" Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail. "
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" 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. "
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" Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion. "
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" But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments. "
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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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" The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. "
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