Quote of the day
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Rachel Speght

Born: 1597
Bio: Rachel Speght was a poet and polemicist. She was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, by name, as a polemicist and critic of gender ideology. Speght, a feminist and a Calvinist, is perhaps best known for her tract A Mouzell for Melastomus.