“ I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't… Anne Bradstreet
“ Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Anne Bradstreet
“ Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Anne Bradstreet
“ O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,Their names without a record are forgot,Their parts, their ports, their p… Anne Bradstreet
“ If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. Anne Bradstreet
“ Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge fitter to bruise than to polish. Anne Bradstreet
“ Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom. Anne Bradstreet
“ There is no object that we see no action that we do no good that we enjoy no evil that we feel or fear but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise… Anne Bradstreet
“ If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity prosperity would not be so welcome. Anne Bradstreet
“ If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so wel Anne Bradstreet
“ ...And although thus short, we shorten many ways,Living so little while we are alive;In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delightSo unawares comes on perpetual night,And puts all pleasures vain unto et… Anne Bradstreet
“ Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus tax’d us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. Let such as s… Anne Bradstreet
“ The Author To Her BookThou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did'st by my side remain,Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true,Who thee abroad exposed to public v… Anne Bradstreet
