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A Serious Proposal to the Ladies

A work by Mary Astell

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  • What korrents draws from it

    Women are denied advantages from infancy and then reproached for lacking them, Piety founded on reason and truth is secure; piety founded on feeling and inclination will not last, Since the soul was made to contemplate truth, keeping women from knowledge is as cruel and unjust as keeping them from good …

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    Mary Astell

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Key facts

Edition korrents quotes
1694, 1697; 1697 printing2
Claims on korrents
71

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Women are denied advantages from infancy and then reproached for lacking them (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Piety founded on reason and truth is secure; piety founded on feeling and inclination will not last (opens korrents.com)1

  3. 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)1

  4. A lack of education makes women's talk insipid and their solitude unbearable; learning is necessary to make them useful company (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Those who deny women intellectual improvement must either claim women have no souls or let them cultivate their minds (opens korrents.com)1

  6. In matters of importance women should assert their liberty instead of submitting to impertinent customs (opens korrents.com)1

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Written by

  • Mary Astell

Sources

  1. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II (1694, 1697; 1697 printing) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II (1694, 1697; 1697 printing) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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