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“each followed such a profession as was most proper for the nature of their Species, which the Empress encouraged them in, especially those that had applied themselves to the study of several Arts and Sciences; for they were as ingenious and witty in the invention of profitable and useful Arts, as we are in our world, nay, more; and to that end she erected Schools, and founded several Societies.”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

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“Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.”
― Margaret Cavendish

tags: anger, temper, women, words

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“...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World and Other Writings

tags: reality, truth

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“Adventure, and not being provided for so cold a Voyage, were all frozen to death; the young Lady onely, by the light of her Beauty, the heat of her Youth, and Protection of the Gods, remaining alive: Neither was it a wonder that the men did freeze to death; for they were not onely driven to the very end or point of the Pole of that World, but even to another Pole of another World, which”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World

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“Besides, we shall want employments for our senses, and subjects for arguments; for were there nothing but truth, and no falsehood, there would be no occasion for to dispute, and by this means we should want the aim and pleasure of our endeavours in confuting and contradicting each other; neither would one man be thought wiser than another, but all would either be alike knowing and wise, or all would be fools...”
― Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World and Other Writings

tags: debates, sense, truth

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