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Reflections upon marriage (1706)
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If marriage be such a blessed state, how comes it, may you say, that there are so few happy marriages? Now in answer to this, it is not to be wondered that so few succeed; we should rather be surprised to find so many do, considering how imprudently men engage, the motives they act by, and the very strange conduct they observe throughout.
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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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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.
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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.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Mary Astell
Born:
November 12, 1666
Died:
May 11, 1731
(aged 64)
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