Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 15 December 1673) was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer, and playwright. She was a prolific writer, publishing over 12 original texts under her name at a time when women were largely removed from publishing.

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"If Atomes are as small, as small can bee, They must in quantity of Matter all agree."

- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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"The spider-men came first, and presented her Majesty with a table full of mathematical points, lines and figures of all sorts of squares, circles, triangles, and the like; which the Empress, notwithstanding that she had a very ready wit, and quick apprehension, could not understand; but the more she endeavoured to learn, the more was she confounded"

- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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"Riches is not what we have, but what we enjoy."

- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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