Quotes By Mary Astell

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

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.

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

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

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.