“And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his c...” — Margaret Cavendish Quote

“And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.”

“My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.”

“And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet being dull, fearful and bashful, I neither heeded what was said or practised, but just what belonged to my loyal duty and my own honest reputation.”

“Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.”

“As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.”

“Opposition is true friendship.”

“To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.”

“Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.”

“One of the main reasons I wanted to write about female friendship is because it's so powerful and underestimated.”

“I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.”

“Came but for friendship, and took away love.”