If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.

  • -- Mary Astell 艾斯泰尔

如果一个女人既不能爱也不能尊重,她答应服从就是不礼貌的。

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I've always considered myself lucky that I do not have many passions. There's only one pursuit that I have ever truly loved, and that pursuit is writing. This means, conveniently enough, that I never had to search for my destiny; I only had to obey it.

我一直认为自己很幸运,因为我没有太多的激情。只有一种追求是我真正热爱的,那就是写作。这就意味着,我从来不必去寻找我的命运,这是很方便的。我只需要服从它。

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

如果我们注定要死,我们就足以使我们的国家蒙受损失;活着的人越少,获得的荣誉就越多。

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.

婚姻是两个人的结合:一个永远记不住生日,另一个永远不会忘记。

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

男人都会犯错,但结了婚的男人会更快发现。

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

没有人听我们说话,我们还能得到什么荣誉呢?