Rachel

“You see how deviously the institution of marriage threads itself through a woman’s life? If she does not marry she is perpetually a child—until she is suddenly an old woman, that is.”
― Fiona Hill, The Stanbroke Girls

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“Edward Glascocke of Easthampfield was brought before the Church courts in 1587 charged with sharing a bed with both his wife and his maid, a state of affairs that was held responsible for the three arriving very late for church in the mornings.18 In another case, the parson of Alphamstone in”
― Elizabeth Norton, The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women: A Social History