Mary Astell

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their…

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion…

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design…

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all…

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more…

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear…

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love…

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her…

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit…

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of…

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

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we…