But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
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Mary Astell was a 17th-century English feminist philosopher and writer. Mary Astell was an English proto-feminist author, philosopher, and rhetorician who advocated for equal educational opportunities for women. Astell is primarily remembered as one of England's inaugural advocates for women's rights and some commentators consider her to have been "the first English feminist". Read more on Wikipedia →