Mary Astell
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English philosopher (1666 to 1731), born in Newcastle, who lived her adult life in London; author of A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694, 1697).
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ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Women are denied advantages from infancy and then reproached for lacking them (opens korrents.com)
“Women are from their very Infancy debar’d those Advantages, with the want of which they are afterwards reproached, and nursed up in those Vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them.”
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Since the soul was made to contemplate truth, keeping women from knowledge is as cruel and unjust as keeping them from good (opens korrents.com)
“Being the Soul was created for the contemplation of Truth as well as for the fruition of Good, is it not as cruel and unjust to preclude Women from the knowledge of the one as from the enjoyment of the other?”
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A lack of education makes women's talk insipid and their solitude unbearable; learning is necessary to make them useful company (opens korrents.com)
“What is it but the want of an ingenious Education, that renders the generality of Feminine Conversations so insipid and foolish and their solitude so insupportable? Learning is therefore necessary to render them more…”
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Women are denied advantages from infancy and then reproached for lacking them (opens korrents.com)