Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, was an English writer and philosopher who made significant contributions to the early modern period. She was one of the first women to publish her own works and is considered a pioneer of the novel form.
Related Quotes
Source: The Blazing World and Other Writings
“Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.”
Source: The Blazing World
“If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree”
“One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.”
Source: Sociable Letters
“I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.”
Source: Sociable Letters
“The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.”
“Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.”
“For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.”
Source: Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions
Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader
Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader
Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader
Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader
Source: Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions
Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader
“Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.”
Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader