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.

  Mary Astell

  Doe, Use, Reason

  Mary Astell, Bridget Hill (1986). “The first English feminist: reflections upon marriage and other writings”

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

  Mary Astell

  Men, Birth, Slave

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• Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

  Mary Astell

  Strong, Truth Will Prevail, Truth Is

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.

  Mary Astell

  Mean, Thinking

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

  Mary Astell

  Ignorance, Vices, Foundation

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.67, Broadview Press

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• A las mujeres se les niegan desde la infancia las ventajas que luego se les reprochan.

  Mary Astell

  Infancy Is, Want, Advantage

  1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

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• La duración de la vida es demasiado corta para desperdiciarla en asuntos despreocupados e inútiles.

  Mary Astell

  Life, Matter, Too Short

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• 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

  Garden, World, Fine

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• A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.

  Mary Astell

  Accepting, Said, Refuse

  1706 Some Reflections upon Marriage Occasion'd by the Duke and Duchess of Mazarine's Case which is also consider'd, preface (1706 edn).

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• Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

  Mary Astell

  Reflection, Glasses, Mind

  1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

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• How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

  Mary Astell

  Sex, Men, Wife

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Wise, Fit, Enough

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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

  Mary Astell

  Justice, Diversity, Liberty

  'An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex' (1696) p. 25

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• If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

  Mary Astell

  States, Sovereignty, Absolutes

  Reflections upon Marriage, 3rd ed., preface (1706)

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• Porque ciertamente no puede haber mayor placer que pensar que amamos y somos amados por el Ser más amable y mejor.

  Mary Astell

  Thinking, Beloved, Pleasure

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• Todos estamos de acuerdo en que es conveniente ser tan felices como podamos, y no necesitamos ningún Instructor que nos enseñe este Conocimiento, 'nace con nosotros, y es inseparable de nuestro Ser, pero necesitamos mucho ser Informados de cuál es el verdadero Camino a la Felicidad.

  Mary Astell

  Needs, Way, Fit

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.129, Broadview Press

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• Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?

  Mary Astell

  Slavery, Sacred, Cases

  1706 Some Reflections upon Marriage Occasion'd by the Duke and Duchess of Mazarine's Case which is also consider'd, preface (1706 edn).

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

  Mary Astell

  Heart, Men, Be Good

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.47, Cambridge University Press

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• Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.

  Mary Astell

  Men, Vices, Want

  1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

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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.

  Mary Astell

  Running, Party, Glitter

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

  Mary Astell

  Mean, Needs, Ifs

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.59, Broadview Press

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• Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

  Mary Astell

  Mean, Men, Acting

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• A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make a bow, but thinks he is good enough to pretend to any woman.

  Mary Astell

  Sex, Husband, Men

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• Todo el mundo sabe que la mente no dejará de contemplar lo que ama en medio de las multitudes y los negocios. De aquí vienen esas frecuentes ausencias, tan observables en la conversación; porque mientras el cuerpo está confinado a la compañía presente, la mente vuela hacia aquello en lo que se deleita.

  Mary Astell

  Mind, Delight, Body

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• We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.

  Mary Astell

  Pain, Grief, May

  John Norris, Mary Astell (1695). “Letters Concerning the Love of God”, p.90

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