Women Prisoners

Famous quotes containing the words women and/or prisoners:

“The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

“We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers’ wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)