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44 quotes by Mary Astell

A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest. By a Lover of Her Sex. 1694, 1695, 1696 1697 (two printings), 1701, 1703 Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasioned by the Duke and Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which is Also Considered. London: Printed for John Nutt, near Stationers-Hall, 1700 1700, Also: 1703, 1706, 1730 (two editions) A Fair Way with Dissenters and their Patrons. Not writ by Mr. L – - –...
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For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

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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.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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... →

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

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We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

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Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

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