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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

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

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

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A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.

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Mary Astell

Mary Astell

Born: November 12, 1666
Died: May 11, 1731 (aged 64)
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