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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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If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
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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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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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How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope
Mary Astell
Born:
November 12, 1666
Died:
May 11, 1731
(aged 64)
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