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Those who deny women intellectual improvement must either claim women have no souls or let them cultivate their minds
Drawn from what Mary Astell said
What Mary Astell actually said
- Mary Astell English philosopher (1666 to 1731), born in Newcastle
Let such therefore as deny us the improvement of our Intellectuals, either take up his Paradox, who said that Women have no Souls, which at this time a day, when they are allow’d to Brutes, wou’d be as unphilosophical as it is unmannerly, or else let them permit us to cultivate and improve them.
Where this was said
↗A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, Parts I and II (1694, 1697; 1697 printing)gutenberg.org
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