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Women are denied advantages from infancy and then reproached for lacking them
Drawn from what Mary Astell said
What Mary Astell actually said
- Mary Astell English philosopher (1666 to 1731), born in Newcastle
Women are from their very Infancy debar’d those Advantages, with the want of which they are afterwards reproached, and nursed up in those Vices which will hereafter be upbraided to 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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