And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense.

“It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; t…”

“For now that Aphra Behn had done it, girls could go to their parents and say, Y…”

“And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.”

“...the value of education is among the greatest of all human values...”