Quotes by : Mary Astell

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

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

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions....

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for....

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

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

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