| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8147 |
| QUOTATION: | For such despite they cast on female wits:
If what I do prove well, it won’t advance,
They’ll say it’s stol’n, or else it was by chance. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672), Anglo-American poet. To sing of wars, of captains, and of kings (l. 28–30). . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I–II. Nina Baym and others, eds. (2d ed., 1985) W. W. Norton & Company. |
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