How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? – 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
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? – 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
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. – Mary Astell
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. – Mary Astell