Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton

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    God, I can push the grass apart
    And lay my finger on Thy heart.
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. ‘Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    He first deceas’d; She for a little tri’d
    To live without him: lik’d it not, and di’d.
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)