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。

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

我们当中有谁在后代降临之前就已经足够成熟到可以繁衍后代了?婚姻的价值不在于成人生孩子,而在于孩子生成人。

Looking up we are not ashamed in the presence of heaven, nor bowing down are we ashamed in the presence of earth.

我们向天举目、在地面前并不羞愧。向地下拜、也不羞愧。

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

我不害怕我不喜欢的东西。克服对一件事的厌恶常常能使人感到光荣。

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

不要和你认为可以一起生活的人结婚;只和你认为自己离不开的人结婚。

He who will not obey father, will have to obey stepfather.

不服从父亲的人,将不得不服从继父。