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Women are from their very Infancy debarr'd those advantages [of education] with the want of which they are afterwards reproached, and nursed up in those vices with which will hereafter be upbraided them.
Source: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest, 1694.
-- Mary Astell, (Nov 12 1666-1731), English feminist, writer; Her writings include A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest, 1694.