Famous Quotes | All I ask, is the privilege for...

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 Behn
Attribution: Aphra Behn (1640–1689), British playwright, poet. repr. In The Works of Aphra Behn, vol. 2, ed. M. Summers (1915). The Lucky Chance, preface (1686).

Categories: Playwright, Poetry And Poets, Women

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