Author: Mary Astell

Quotes

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.

- Mary Astell

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

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

- Mary Astell

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.

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.

- Mary Astell

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

- Mary Astell

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

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

- Mary Astell

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

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

- Mary Astell

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.

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.

- Mary Astell

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.

- Mary Astell

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.

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.

- Mary Astell

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