I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong
For such despite they cast on female wits. . . .
Source: Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Prologue, 1678.
-- Anne Bradstreet, (NA 1612?-1672), US poet; Her Verse, 1650, was considered the first significant literary work in Colonial America.