Emilia Lanier - Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereign

Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?

- Emilia Lanier

source: 1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

topic: Pain, Challenges, Bars