Mary Astell Quotes

I don't see things in terms of gender.

Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations.

I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.

I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Obviously I want to support women, and I believe in women, and I think we should support each other, but we shouldn't go into extremes. Some women can get very aggressive towards men, but we need men and love men, so keeping the right balance is the most important thing.

I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

I have no prejudice against male or female.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment.

You just wish sometimes that people would treat you like a human being rather than seeing your gender first and who you are second.

I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.

If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.

Ability is sexless.

I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike.

Right is of no sex – Truth is of no color.

The Spartan principle of "calling that which is just, equal; not that which is equal, just.

Inherent differences between men and women, we have come to appreciate, remain cause for celebration, but not for denigration of the members of either sex or for artificial constraints on an individual’s opportunity.

Do not favor the poor or show deference to the rich; judge your neighbor fairly.