Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
Mary AstellYour glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
Mary AstellNone of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.
Mary AstellFor my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk Nonsense, or unintelligible Sense, I am diverted and edified alike by either; the one enjoys himself less, but suffers his Friends to do it more; the other enjoys himself and his own Humour enough, but will let no body else do it in his Company.
Mary Astell