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Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

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All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom. . . I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.

Source: The Lucky Chance, Preface, 1686.
-- Aphra Behn, (Jul 10 1640-1689), English playwright, poet; She was the first English woman to support herself by writing; most popular play was The Rover, 1677.

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