Astell: Political Writings
A source page for quotes linked to Mary Astell.
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“If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?”
“If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?”
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“none can be Tyrants but Cowards.”
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
“Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
“The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.”
“It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.”
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.”
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Source: Astell: Political Writings
Source: Astell: Political Writings
Source: Letters concerning the love of God, between the author of the Proposal to the ladies, and Mr. John Norris: wherein his late discourse, showing that it ought to be intire and exclusive of all other loves, is further cleared and justified
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.”
“Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.”
“If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
Source: Astell: Political Writings
Source: The first English feminist: reflections upon marriage and other writings
Source: Astell: Political Writings
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
Source: Astell: Political Writings
Source: Astell: Political Writings
Source: Letters Concerning the Love of God
Source: The Christian Religion, as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church of England
“Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.”
Source: The Christian Religion, as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church of England
“We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.”
Source: Astell: Political Writings
“The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.”
Source: The Christian Religion, as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church of England
Source: Astell: Political Writings
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies
Source: Astell: Political Writings