People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
Mary Wortley MontaguMiserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.
Mary Wortley MontaguIt goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.
Mary Wortley MontaguA propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.
Mary Wortley Montagu