#CatharineTrotterCockburn

“The first published defense of Locke's moral philosophy was written in secret by a twenty-something woman playwright — who then lost twenty years to poverty, nursery, and needle, and came back at fifty to finish the argument.”

“Morality needs no innate stamps and no arbitrary divine decrees. Reflect honestly on what kind of creature you are — rational, sociable, dependent — and duty follows from your own nature, as surely as geometry follows from figures.”