Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Bathsua Makin

Born: 1600
Died: 1675 (aged 75)
Bio: Bathsua Reginald Makin was a proto-feminist, middle-class Englishwoman who contributed to the emerging criticism of woman's position in the domestic and public spheres in 17th-century England.