Mary Astell
Mary Astell
Mary Astellwas an English feminist writer and rhetorician. Her advocacy of equal educational opportunities for women has earned her the title "the first English feminist."...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 November 1666
accepting said refuse
A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.
infancy-is want advantage
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.
tyrants coward tyranny
none can be Tyrants but Cowards.