Original: «She must be a fool with a witness, who can believe a man, proud and vain as he is, will lay his boasted authority, the dignity and prerogative of his sex, on moment at her feet, but in prospect of taking it up again to more advantage; he may call himself her slave a few days, but it is only in order to make her his all the rest of his life».
Fuente: Astell, Mary. Astell: Political Writings. Editor Patricia Springborg. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 9780521428453. p. 44.
Fuente: Reflection upon Marriage
Mary Astell: Puede
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Original: «Again, if Absolute Sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family? Or if in a Family why not in a State; since no Reason can Be alle'd for the one that will not hold more strongly for the other?».
Fuente: Citado en Kolbrener, William. Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith. Editor Michal Michelson. Editorial Routledge, 2016. ISBN 9781317100096. p. 203.
Original: «An ill husband may deprive a wife of the comfort and quiet of her life, give occasion of exercising her virtue, try her patience and fortitude to the utmost, which is all he can do; it is herself only that can accomplish her ruin».
Fuente: Citado en The Whole duty of a woman: female writers in seventeenth century England Autor, editor y colaboradora Angeline Goreau. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Dial Press, 1985. ISBN 9780385278782. p. 157.