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Danh ngôn của Mary Astell (Sứ mệnh: 9)

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
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, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.
Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.