Mary Astell Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

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

“Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.”

“Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.”

“Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.”

“God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.”

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

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

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

“The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.”

“The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.”