Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behnwas a British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth14 December 1640
names sexism dear
Dear me no Dears, Sir ...
love crush dear
Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
return reputation
Love, like reputation, once fled, never returns more.
men action share
affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have ...
dream heart ashamed
'Twas but a dream, yet by my heart I knew, Which still was panting, part of it was true: Oh how I strove the rest to have believed; Ashamed and angry to be undeceived!
real passion love-is
As love is the most noble and divine passion of the soul, so is it that to which we may justly attribute all the real satisfactions of life, and without it, man is unfinished, and unhappy.
sea long no-friends
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
money language speak
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
curiosity novelty
Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.
wise men thinking
I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.
soul pleasure variety
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
sex privilege poet
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.
love positive birthday
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
perfect faithful library
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.