Roaring Girls Quotes

“They argued, after the ancient philosophers Plato and Plotinus, that the nature of the universe was spiritual rather than material, and that moral virtues and reason were God-given. The mortal life was meaningless, the appetites and senses a distraction; the important truths, and access to God, could only be attained through abstract thinking and intellectual reasoning.”
― Holly Kyte, Roaring Girls: Eye-opening true stories and biographies about some of the most inspiring women in British history, the forgotten feminists

“Tis true, the world may wonder at my confidence, how I dare put out a book, especially in these censorious times; but why should I be ashamed, or afraid, where no evil is, and not please my self in the satisfaction of innocent desires? For a smile of neglect cannot dishearten me, no more can a frown of dislike affright me … my mind’s too big, and I had rather venture an indiscretion, than lose the hopes of a fame.[43] This is the Margaret Cavendish that feminists adore, emerging from her chrysalis: singular, ambitious, confident of her intelligence and proudly dismissive of what others think.”
― Holly Kyte, Roaring Girls: Eye-opening true stories and biographies about some of the most inspiring women in British history, the forgotten feminists

“hanged or burned for it, that is.[11] These elaborate tortures pointed to one simple fact: that the potential power women had – be it sexual, intellectual, even supernatural – scared the living daylights out of the patriarchy. In response, it did everything it could to suppress that power and preserve its own supremacy: it kept them ignorant, incapacitated, voiceless and dependent.”
― Holly Kyte, Roaring Girls: Eye-opening true stories and biographies about some of the most inspiring women in British history, the forgotten feminists