Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
From Mary Astell
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.
Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
'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.
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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