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Bathsua Makin
English linguist and feminist writer From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium
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Bathsua Reginald Makin (c. 1600 – c. 1675) was a teacher and writer who contributed to the emerging criticism of woman's position in the domestic and public spheres in 17th-century England.
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- A Learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, when ever it appears. To offer to the World the liberal Education of Women is to deface the Image of God in Man, it will make Women so high, and men so low, like Fire in the House-tops it will set the whole world in a Flame. These things and worse than these, are commonly talked of, and verily believed by many, who think themselves wise Men: to contradict these is a bold attempt.
- "To all Ingenious and Vertuous Ladies, more especially to ... the Lady Mary, Eldest Daughter to ... the Duke of York", p. 3
- Let not your Ladiships be offended that I do not (as some have wittily done) plead for Female Preeminence. To ask too much is the way to be denied all.
- "To all Ingenious and Vertuous Ladies, ...", p. 4
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External links
- Myra Reynolds, The Learned Lady in England, 1650–1760 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), p. 280
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