To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
Mary Astell
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.
action
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
life wisdom
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
women
Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
religion
vices rest
Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
vices education
We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
happiness
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
women life wisdom men
If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.
doubt men
None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
women men
Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
mind
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
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.
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
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