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Mary Astell Quotes: 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 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.


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Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.



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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.



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Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.



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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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To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.



The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.



Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.



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

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



The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

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.

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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