Essex Girls Quotes

“So Anne Knight holds up her placard, and fixes the dubious observer with her pale unblinking eyes. "Woman has the capacity for instructing man," she wrote, and her toils "have strengthened her mind and matured her judgement till she is now superior to man...”
― Sarah Perry, Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

“It has become a habit to conceive of women - both historically and currently - not by their achievements, but by the restraints placed upon them; to study the locked door, and fail to see the windows broken from inside.”
― Sarah Perry, Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

“I suppose I am not alone in having once been oblivious to what I owed to women before me, and to the notion that I ought to find ways of repaying the debt.”
― Sarah Perry, Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere