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Margaret Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish Books

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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.

Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

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“If any should like the World I have made, and be willing to be my Subjects, they may imagine themselves such, and they are such, I mean in their Minds, Fancies or Imaginations; but if they cannot endure to be Subjects, they may create Worlds of their own, and Govern themselves as they please.”

Writing Imagination Creativity

Book:The Blazing World and Other Writings

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.”

Women Anger Words Temper

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“[...] for, I am not Covetous, but as Ambitious as ever any of my Sex was, is, or can be; which is the cause, That though I cannot be Henry the Fifth, or Charles the Second; yet, I will endeavour to be, Margaret the First: and, though I have neither Power, Time nor Occasion, to be a great Conqueror, like Alexander, or Cesar; yet, rather than not be Mistress of a World, since Fortune and the Fates would give me none, I have made One of my own.”

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult.”

Judge Impartiality

Book:The Blazing World

Source: The Blazing World

“If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree”

Ifs Matter Agree Quantity Bees

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.”

Children Law Young Literature My Own Brother My Brother Disposition Brothers And Sisters In-laws Affectionate Sister In Law

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.”

Men Firsts Different Literature Born Capable Breeding

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.”

Giving Children Persons Reason Literature Born Example Ill Noble Servant Vulgar Reserved

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.”

Pain Dies Mankind Creatures Oblivion

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.”

May Friendship Opinion Very Good Good Friend Very Good Friends

Book:Sociable Letters

Source: Sociable Letters

“I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband.”

Thinking Husband Bad Husband

Book:Sociable Letters

Source: Sociable Letters

“Thoughts are like stars in the firmament; some are fixed, others like the wandering planets, others again are only like meteors. Understanding is like the Sun, which gives light to all the thoughts. Memory is like the Moon, it hath its new, its full and its wane.”

Giving Light Stars Understanding Memories Sun Planets Moon Wander Fixed Firmament Meteors

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.”

Hate Nature Wise Idle Housewife Orderly Industrious Very Wise

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.”

Wells Brain Fruit Seeds Wit Speakers Barren Plagiarism

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?”

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.”

Wealth Prosperity Perfume Ache

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.”

Dies Truth Is Labor Beast Bats Worms Owl

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.”

Religion Women Conscience

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.”

Men Creatures Devil Beast Rude Disposition Brutes Celestial Rudeness

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.”

Helping Spirit Mother Suffering Literature Misfortunes Heroic Remedy Industrious

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was Heir to my Fathers Estate, and as it were the Father to take care of us all, is not less Valiant than they were, although his skill in the Discipline of War was not so much, being not bred therein.”

War Care Father Literature Lord Brother Discipline Skills Take Care Estates Heirs Valiant

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.”

Pleasure Method Delight Temperance Felicity

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.”

Dies Security Adventure Achievement Noble Obscure Sluggish

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.”

Country Literature Lost Friendship Lord Poverty Break Duty Ties Loyal Estates Despised Lost Friendship Lost Friend Pinching Bonds Of Friendship

Book:Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions

Source: Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions

“Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.”

Action Literature Fool My Friends Rude Family And Friends Wanton Dishonour

Book:Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

“For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.”

Madness Senses Yield Disorder Disgusting Relish

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.”

Ifs Wells Literature Sex Perceive Merit Pondering Aggravation

Book:Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

“As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.”

Mother Literature Rich Pride Fine Gay Delight Estates Maintaining Garments Neat Cleanliness Gay Pride

Book:Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

“For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.”

Should Literature Lord Wife Benefits Should Have Hearing Owners Estates Allowance

Book:Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

“And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.”

Said Might Literature Understanding My Own Honest Duty Court Wit Reputation Dull Fearful Loyal Bashful

Book:Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions

Source: Bell in Campo and The Sociable Companions

“As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.”

Pleasure Delight Plenty Decency

Book:Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

“Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.”

Knows Remember Literature House Doors Parliament Beggar

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.”

Years Wit Idiot

Book:Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

Source: Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader

“My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.”

Care Able Mother Cost Recovery Servant Sickness Mistress

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.”

Mind Body Action Crime Birth Fortune Ashamed Breeding Of My Mind Bashfulness

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.”

Wit Graves Tombs

Author:Margaret Cavendish

About the Author

Born: 1623
Died: December 15, 1673
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 36

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