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Some reflections upon marriage (1703)
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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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'Tis less to be wondered at that women marry off in haste, for if they took time to consider and reflect upon it, they seldom would.
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If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
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If Absolute Sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?
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How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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Mary Astell
Born:
November 12, 1666
Died:
May 11, 1731
(aged 64)
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