Quotes by Mary Astell

Mary Astell

A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make a bow, but thinks he is good enough to pretend to any woman.

Husband

Men

Sex

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

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Thinking

Understanding

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.

Body

Delight

Mind

For my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for ’tis all one to me, whether a Man talk Nonsense, or unintelligible Sense, I am diverted and edified alike by either; the one enjoys himself less, but suffers his Friends to do it more; the other enjoys himself and his own Humour enough, but will let no body else do it in his Company.

Men

Suffering

Thinking

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.

Fine

Garden

World

If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

Absolutes

Sovereignty

States

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

Birth

Men

Slave

If God had not intended that Women shou’d use their Reason, He wou’d not have given them any, ‘for He does nothing in vain.

Doe

Reason

Use

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

Doubt

Men

Would Be

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

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Quotes by Mary Astell

Mary Astell

A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make a bow, but thinks he is good enough to pretend to any woman.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

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.

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.

If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

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

If God had not intended that Women shou’d use their Reason, He wou’d not have given them any, ‘for He does nothing in vain.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

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

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