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 AstellWomen are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
Mary AstellIgnorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Mary Astell