Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
Mary Astell
women
Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.
worth
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.
life wisdom distance
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.
pain
He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.
rights
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
content
But, alas! What poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
design
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
slavery
Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.
adamandeve
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