Actions Quotes Logo

Mary Astell Quotes

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Pas...

Show More

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

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Hus...

Show More

How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good ...

Show More

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

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

Related Authors

Picture of Mary Astell not available

Mary Astell

Writer

Born: 1666-11-12

Died: 1731-05-11

Mary Astell (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 12 November 1666 – Londres, 11 May 1731) was an English feminist writer and rhetorician. Her advocacy of equal educational opportunities for women has earned her the title "the first English feminist."More