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.
From Mary Astell
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.
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
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.
Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
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