Mary Astell Needs Quotations

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.