All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.
Aphra BehnAffectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.
Aphra BehnNothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
Aphra Behn