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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.

~Mary Astell

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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

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

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

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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

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'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.

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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: November 12th, 1666

Died: May 11th, 1731

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