"Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached"
- Mary Astell
About this Quote
The quote implies that from a really early age, women are stopped from having specific advantages in life that they are after that slammed for doing not have later. Mary Astell is recommending that society unfairly rejects women chances that they then condemn them for not pursuing or attaining.
This quote is written / told by Mary Astell between December 12, 1666 and May 11, 1731. She was a famous Writer from England.
The author also have 38 other quotes.
"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies"
"Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion"
"The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects"
"At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil"
"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space"
"I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock"
"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out"
