Margaret Cavendish Quotes
Indeed, I was so afraid to dishonour my friends and family by my indiscreet actions, that I rather chose to be accounted a fool, than to be thought rude or wanton.
Cavendish, Margaret. "A True Relation of my Birth, Breeding, and Life." Nature's Pictures Drawn by Fancie's Pencil to the Life, J. Martin and J. Allestrye, 1656.
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Reacting to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy who accused without any evidence 26 state department employees of "pro-communist" leanings, McFarland, the Majority Leader, took the Senate floor:
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright. Born Margaret Lucas, she was the youngest sister of the royalists Sir John Lucas and Sir Charles Lucas, who owned the manor of St John's Abbey, Colchester. She became an attendant on Queen Henrietta Maria and travelled with her into exile in France, living for a time at the court of the young King Louis XIV. She became the second wife of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1645, when he was a marquess.
