Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.
Mary AstellFor certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.
Mary AstellFetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
Mary Astell