Mary Astell Quotes

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Mary Astell

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

Mary Astell

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

Mary Astell