Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

		Name: Mary Astell Type: Writer Nationality: English Birth: December 12, 1666 Death: May 11, 1731