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

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• Mary Astell:

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

• Mary Astell:

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

• Mary Astell:

  If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for

• Mary Astell:

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

• Mary Astell:

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

• Mary Astell:

  It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

• Mary Astell:

  Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its r

• Mary Astell:

  None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly

• Mary Astell:

  None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are

• Mary Astell:

  Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned wi