Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Masculines, you have thus tax’d us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. Let such as say our sex is void of reason Know ‘tis a slander now, but once was tre Anne Bradstreet
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The poet William Shakespeare used a line from his play King Richard III to show the value of a woman. Shakespeare’s words were taken from the following lines: “Say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay, Masculines, you have thus taxed us long, But she, though dead, will vindicate our wrong. Let such as say our sex is void of reason know ‘tis a slander now, but once was true.” The speaker is defending the status of women in society. He stresses that women are not without reason and that they do have a role in society.

Source: The Works Of Anne Bradstreet

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