Occupation: Writer Birth: November 12, 1666 Death: May 11, 1731
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain..
Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best..
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached..
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds..
If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?.
A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered..
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters..
We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess..
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing..
For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being..
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail..
To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run o….
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty..
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?.
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 ….
How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?.
Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently….
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit t….
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absen….
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly t….
A husband is indeed thought by both sexes so very valuable, that scarce a man who can keep himself clean and make a bow, but thinks he is good enough….