Mary Collier

Mary Collier (9 October 1688 – 20 October 1762) was an English poet, perhaps best known for The Woman's Labour (1739)

Quotes

• So the industrious bees do hourly strive
  To bring their loads of honey to the hive;
  Their sordid owners always reap the gains,
  And poorly recompense their toils and pains.
  • The Woman’s Labour (1739), p. 17

• Though we all day with care our work attend,
  Such is our fate, we know when ’twill end.
  When evening’s come, you homeward take your way.
  We, till our work is done, are forced to stay
  • The Woman’s Labour (1739)

• The greatest Heroes that the World can know,
  To Women their Original must owe.
  • The Three Wise Sentences, from the First Book of Esdras (1740), l. 132 [1]