God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him. – Mary Astell

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

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. – Mary Astell