My current thoughts on my research paper on Anne Bradstreet:
I washed thy face, but more defects I saw,
And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw.
I stretcht thy joints to make thee even feet,
Yet still thou run’st more hobbling than is meet.
- Anne Bradstreet
‘”Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.” Teenagers think they are bullet-proof and don’t know that a man reaps what he sows. Someone has to tell them that grass grows up, not down, so that they can know when to roll their eyes.’
- Douglas Wilson from Beyond Stateliest Marble: The Passionate Femininity of Anne Bradstreet
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”