Anne Bradstreet
Quotations

"If what I do prove well, it won't advance,
They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. "

 

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

- 'Meditations Divine and Moral,' 1655

 

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. "

 

"Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are. "

 

"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. "