We have a collection of 3 Design quotes from Mary Astell
"But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?" (ID 22501)
"The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it." (ID 22565)
"God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him." (ID 22651)