Anne Bradstreet on Women
1612–1672 England
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Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.
I am obnoxious to each carping tongue,
Who sayes my hand a needle better fits,
A poet’s pen, all scorne, I should thus wrong;
For such despight they cast on female wits:
If what I doe prove well, it won’t advance,
They’ll say it’s stolne, or else, it was by chance.